Announcing Elopement Even When Postponing Wedding?

You can combine the two into one card. It can announce that you two were married in an intimate ceremony in August. Then also express that you want to celebrate your new union with family and friends. So dave the new date of ____ for the reception. Just a general idea, but the wording would be laid out better of course.

We went ahead and told people at the same time we announced our postponement. I guess it depends on your situation and how you think your family will react. After having to postpone twice, our families were understanding and supportive of us deciding to have a small ceremony this year and the larger wedding next year. I’m a little worried people may not want to come to the larger wedding once we’re already married, but I just didn’t want to hide anything from our families and friends. I think people might be more mad that they didn’t know of the marriage than just telling them upfront.


Best of luck, this has been one crazy year!

Our immediate family will know, but we didn't announce it to anyone else because we are still having a ceremony at our wedding and that is where I will be wearing my dress!

Our wedding was postponed too, but I can't even choose a new date until mid-September. So, we're getting married next month and close family & friends know but we're not "announcing" it to anyone until after our minimony and we'll just share a picture saying we got married. They don't need to know before you do it, if you don't want them to. It'd be cute to announce you got married with your new date at the same time.

We never made a formal announcement about eloping even though we postponed the reception. It got out by word of mouth and I posted on social media about it. But never made a formal announcement to everyone on our guest list. I figured it didnt really matter..they were going to come to the reception either way to celebrate whether we were married already or not

We noted our elopement intention, along with the date and time, on our COVID rescheduled wedding insert. But we mostly did that because of our intention to share a private video meeting link for those guests who were no longer coming to our new elopement ceremony.

Then I set up 2 facebook invites. One for those attending in person, and one for everyone else to attend virtually if they chose (I emailed the link directly to a few family members who aren't facebook saavy). Out of about 60 guests who couldn't attend in person, I'd say about half showed up to watch the ceremony live on the video link.