Hello all! My fiance and I are scheduled to get married in just three short weeks - 8/9/20 - in Nashville, TN. Our original wedding date was 6/28/20, but we moved it back in March when things were shutting down, and we thought this mess would be over by the summer.
Now, here we are three weeks out and our venue / event coordinating team has reached out to us and told us that because of regulations, we cannot have all 90 guests at our venue. We can only have 25 people (including vendors like photographer / videographer) at the wedding ceremony and reception. The space is a gorgeous space that has a large windows facing the river font, and even has an open outside area where we thought guests could safely social distance. Instead, our venue is graciously offering to move to another venue space that would allow for the guests to space out even further. This space has no parking (the original did, which is a huge perk in downtown Nashville), and is just a very different space than our original venue. To make things worse, our wedding invitations had a custom drawn outline of the original venue on them. We would also have to redesign everything for the new space - in 3 weeks!!
There is part of me that thinks having just our closest family there would not only save us a ton of money, but it would also be more intimate and fun. We keep saying we can always have a big party later for our anniversary or something.
But there is another part of me that wants our 90 guests to be there. Friends that are near and dear to my heart, and people that I love! But I just don't want to force a wedding ceremony and reception if it's not in the cards.
What would you do? What words of advice do you have?
Thank you!!
