How early to start making "plan B"?

I would suggest maybe in December or January, come up with a backup date with your venue/vendors if the COVID scenario isn't looking better, though wait until it's closer to your date to decide whether to actually postpone. It might not hurt to reach out to them now just to get information on how they would handle rescheduling due to COVID. I've heard of some venues not allowing postponing unless it's within a certain time frame of the wedding, while others had no restrictions, so that information may be helpful to have later on, just in case you need to postpone. Hopefully you won't need to!

I would definitely hold out until January or February, I’m getting married March 2021 & I’m still no thinking of plan B , hoping things will get better month by month

I’m may 29 2021 and my fiancé and family have had vague conversations on what we would do, but we’ll decide at Christmas! Our biggest worry is if the travel ban isn’t lift bc we have a lot of international guests coming!

We were supposed to get married this past May and postponed to September, so I think you have plenty of time to ride it out since you have almost a year. We postponed in March and it gave us enough time to contact everyone and vendors and move to a new date. I definitely wouldn't worry about it just yet. We are still planning on having our wedding and it is in 71 days.

My sister-in-law just booked for May 2021 a month ago lol. Not rescheduled, but actually booked for the first time

It's never too early to start thinking about "plan B."


We actually made the decision to postpone our reception about three months ahead of our wedding, but we came up with back-up plans as soon as we knew COVID was a problem. Once you have (hypothetical) back-up plans, you can decide what to do with your save the dates. If you know you'd never cut anyone from your list, you can send them to everyone now, and just alert them to changes if you have to make them later on. If you'd consider having a smaller wedding based on covid-related restrictions and then not have a reception that includes everyone later on, only send save the dates to the people you know you'd never cut from your list, and hold onto the rest until the date gets closer.

We are getting married in March of 2021 and are hopeful that we can still have it as planned. We don't have a plan B as of right now but I'm sure in our meeting before the wedding with the planner, it will be discussed. I am seriously hoping that it will be somewhat normal by then.

View Quoted Comment I'm getting married in March too and am hoping for thr same thing. Fingers crossed!

Spring is our backup plan as we just rescheduled our October wedding to May 2021. Our backup plan for May is to reschedule again if things get worse or don’t have a handle on things by then. We’re hoping for the best this time around

I think you should start plan B now mainly because people are rescheduling and you want to get a date set up. I hope times are better by Spring 2021 but honestly believe we are still going to be dealing with this over the holidays. Especially with all the gatherings round that time of year. Best tot be prepared.

We are getting married March 2021 and have no plans for a plan B. We will get married March 13, 2021. Ours is a small 30 guest wedding anyway, but even if that isn’t possible we will elope at our venue with just us and our kids.

Thank you for all of the input! I'm hopeful things will turn around but at the same time after watching so many friends having to reschedule things or cut down guest lists I figure it may not be a bad idea to start thinking about what that will look like now. I'm crossing my fingers things get back to normal ASAP, but I also don't want to have to throw together a backup plan at the last minute.

My date is May 2021 and I am not thinking of a back up. My only back up is cutting down the list by 10-15 ppl. Otherwise I am going to make it happen to matter what and follow CDC guidelines with social distancing.

You have time. Our wedding was in May and we postponed to next year, in March. Just two months before getting married. Our new date is July 2021. Hoping we are in the clear by then! Especially for international family

I don't think it's ever too early to consider your options. I'm getting married in October 2021 and have discussed with vendors special clauses in our contracts to ensure we will protected regardless of what happens. It's worth a reach out to ask even if the response is that they want you to wait until a certain date to reschedule because at least then you know the timeline you're working with. Also if you wait until January to decide, you'll be "battling" all the 2020 Christmas engaged couples for late 2021/2022 dates

I’m getting married in March & just crossing my fingers! My stress is my honeymoon because we’re supposed to go to Ireland! I am hesitant planning because of the travel restrictions but I don’t want to wait too long! I don’t have a plan B for anything yet!

We rescheduled from September this year to May 2021. We’ve already decided that if we still can’t have it then, we will cancel and lose our deposits but use our remaining savings for the wedding to put a down payment on a house instead. We are getting officially married next week though.

I rescheduled my September 2020 wedding for May 2021. I don’t have a back up plan other then cut my guest list. All I know is....IM GETTING MARRIED in May! Lol

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Hopefully a vaccine will be out, it seems there is hope for that. Although, healthcare and the elderly etc will be first up. Social distancing probably for sure. But I dont think it will be as bad as it is now, yet again in March I though things would be okay for my Oct. wedding. Things change daily. Stay hopeful!

We are getting married July 2021. We are completely cutting out “save the dates” and not sending them (just in case some guests don’t make the final cuts before official invites are sent out) our only plan B is to cut the guest list. We don’t want to postpone or cancel and will still get married regardless