@tx5athome - I believe it was stressful, yet the way their community encircled them on their wedding day is remarkable. Congratulations!
My daughter and fiancé will decide what to do about their June wedding by Easter. The wedding was to be held in Barcelona. It doesn’t look promising. They worked so hard to get the proper documentation for an American to be married in Spain, as well as jumping through all the hoops to be married in City Hall. They may try to go ahead with the civil ceremony without the reception. No matter what, we won’t be able to be there. I don’t want to think about it.
Congratulations @tx5athome! I’m so happy to hear that your D was able get get married surrounded (actually and virtually!) by family and friends.
Congratulations. It’s nice to have something to celebrate now. They could always have a reception later on if that’s what they want.
We have a June 13 family wedding that is really a destination wedding in that no one in either family lives anywhere near the venue. The state it’s in has shuttered everything until June 1.
I’m sure this bride and groom are struggling with when or if to cancel.
They already had a civil ceremony so this was to be a celebration.
These are hard decisions to make…for sure…as no one has a crystal ball to know the future.
Congrats, @tx5athome !
My son got engaged just before Christmas – at the ice skating ring in downtown LA! They were planning a destination wedding in Mexico for someplace between December 2020 and April 2021, but their venue search trip to Mexico is cancelled due to COVID. They are rethinking the destination wedding thing because of all the travel uncertainties, but did just do “domestic partnership” paperwork so she can be on his insurance. The whole wedding thing is all TBD.
Mazel tov @cnp55 !! I’m glad for this happy news even in a very strange and sad time.
@cnp55 Congratulations! My older son and his fiancee have also had to put a “pause” on any wedding planning because of this. They just got engaged on February 28th, right before the coronavirus storm hit. Original plan was a wedding in spring or early summer 2021. Strange time to be newly engaged. But, we are all still very excited about the engagement!
Mazel tov to you guys too, @sevmom !
This reminds me of the story of my DD’s engagement ring. It was a ring that SIL’s paternal grandfather got at the PX just before his leave time at Thanksgiving 1941 - anticipating proposing to his home town girlfriend a distance away from where he was stationed. His leave time was cancelled so he mailed the ring along with a letter to future wife’s sister, who gave the envelope to the bride to be at the appointed time. It turns out Pearl Harbor totally changed wedding plans, and they were able to get married in a very rushed manner before grandfather was sent to war. He returned and happy life together.
SIL was sort of strapped for cash and knew about the ring but not sure if it would suffice. The jeweler said even though the stone was small, the diamond was a very high quality. DD was happy with it and they were able to get a very nice wedding ring that is a band of small diamonds. I told SIL when they are out of debt he needs to get her a matching band of small diamonds which will ‘complete’ the ring IMHO, and SIL agreed.
The two May weddings - one is being postponed with new save the dates going out. The other one had the couple marrying at church with immediate family, and will have a one year anniversary celebration renewing their vowed. The bride was completing degree online, and groom’s job is 900 miles away – this was the best decision for them because they now can be together. They emailed out the night before the Friday wedding.
The May graduation at small college is ‘postponed’. Wonder if they will have a ceremony (they only hold once a year, no Dec graduation or end of summer term graduation).
@SOSConcern what a lovely story. My DD’s engagement ring is also made from a family diamond, surrounded by the birthstones of the couple. One-of-a-kind rings with a legacy are special.
I’ll join in here as happy and in limbo. Ds1 got engaged last week, and they are planning a mid-March 2021 wedding in the city where he is going to school. I’m curious to see how things will proceed. They’ve found a venue that I love. Very them. I hope it all works out.
Congratulations @"Youdon’tsay .Great that they have already found a venue. Son and his fiancee haven’t even begun thinking about venues because they said they wouldn’t even know where to begin , given the current circumstances. They do know they will need to start looking when things calm down . Even though they were not planning to get married until 2021, they will be looking at venues along with couples that have postponed their 2020 weddings. They have 3 weddings this year they were going to that already have had to be postponed. Crazy times.
That’s exactly why I told them that if they get their heart set on a certain venue they need to book it. Not just 2021 couples but all those 2020s who decided to punt into next year.
I think we’re going to see more Friday and Sunday weddings at many venues as they try to accommodate the backlog!
Niece’s wedding is May 10. Waiting to see what our governor does about the stay home order that expires next Monday. Almost all guests are local. If she cancels, she loses her deposit, if venue cancels (and they would prefer she rebook), she gets all her funds back. Hard to plan, because we just don’t know…and she left lots of items to the last minute (which means they aren’t done).
Our nephew cancelled his June 13 wedding. They also had things left to do… it the venue is closed until June 1. No way to continue making plans. They sent an email out this week just saying they felt this was the better plan than waiting any longer. They will do this at some later date…TBD.
I also was invited to a shower the 7th of June. That has also been cancelled. Just too much uncertainty.
We also have a wedding August 15…and just got the printed invite in the mail. We love their optimism…and are keeping our fingers crossed on that one.
So much uncertainty now with these events.
We are invited to local weddings in Sept and Oct. I am scheduled to help host the bridal shower for the October one, but the MOG doesn’t want us to reach it the the MOB or the MOH yet b/c of the uncertainty.
My niece’s wedding was scheduled for Mar 2021. My sister convinced her to move it to end of May 2021 because my sister thinks there is a higher likelihood of coronavirus vaccine being available after Mar 2021. I just hope D2’s law school graduation won’t be on the same weekend.