Late August Brides

Hi! It is awful that you’re going through this. I was originally supposed to get married on May 9th, and postponed until August 14th in Wisconsin. Things are starting to open there, and we are proceeding with caution. I would hold off on making a big decision for another month, until mid-June. I think it would be a worse feeling to postpone now and then realize it could have worked. Things are really changing day by day and as other states open, that might put more pressure on those who have been holding off. I think if things haven’t improved by June, it would probably be best at that point to come up with a plan B. Wishing you all the best!

Our date is August 28th so I'm in the same boat! We're in NY and they just extended our shut down (again) until June 13th. I'm trying to stay hopeful but we also need to consider other options too. I'm hoping by mid June we will have a more definite answer but it's looking like postponijg might be the only thing we can do.

Im september in ny and my venue is not thinking about postponing any weddings past july at this point. i dont know how it is where u are so it depends on that but i would make the decision in june

I think it all depends where you are in MI. With the different zones Whitmer has created, my zone will be the last to see normalcy and our wedding is scheduled for August 8th 😢 our church has a banquet facility (we aren’t using it), and they decided yesterday to cancel all weddings through July. We are holding out hope still...

View Quoted Comment That is a good point! At the end of the day I think it’s going to come down to exactly how many people will be able to gather by then. If they do something like only allow venues to have 25% capacity then we will definitely postpone. We already went through our guest list and narrowed it down to an number we felt comfortable with but cutting it any more would not be worth it in my eyes. Thanks for the advice! I hope everything goes well with your wedding too!

View Quoted Comment Ahh I need to double check the zone info. We are getting married in Saugatuck and originally invited about 135 people. If we have to cut the guest count we narrowed it down do 105 but I honestly don’t know if that will be enough. If it isn’t we will postpone and maybe just do a family ceremony on the actual date and move the celebration to next summer. Thinking of you and hoping for the best for your wedding!!

View Quoted Comment Oooo Saugatuck 💟 That might be part of the GR zone, and they are just before Metro Detroit. My church venue said by August we might be allowed 25% capacity and social distancing. That doesn’t sound fun or what I am willing to pay for in terms of a wedding, you know? We have already decided we will get married August 8th no matter what, and the celebration and Catholic ceremony will just wait, if it comes to that. Positive thoughts for you and your wedding, too!

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Hi there! I'm in almost the same boat as you. My wedding is August 21 in the metro-Detroit area. I have to say, when Whitmer extended our stay-at-home and outlined her phases last week, it took the wind out of my sails. We are still holding out, but we are less confident that we would be allowed to have more than 50 people in August. We wouldn't be happy with a 50 person limit, but we think we would still go ahead with the wedding. I'm crossing my fingers that the stipulations are at least a % of venue capacity because that'll give us a little more leeway. We haven't talked to our venue yet, but I am curious their thoughts especially since our wedding is completely outdoors. It's just so hard to continue to plan without knowing.

My friend was getting married in Grand Rapids in June, but has canceled. I'm supposed to get married in Detroit in July. Based on what I've heard out of Lansing this week, it sounds like we'll only be able to gather in groups of 10 or less when the stay-at-home order is lifted late this month. I feel like we won't be in groups of over 100 by July. My guest list is around 170, and that IS the smallest number already for us. Unless we do immediately family only, I wouldn't feel comfortable cutting the list any further. Also remember that you and your vendors also add to that group total. Once you add in photographer, DJ, servers, etc., your counts jumps up!


We will make our final decision by June 6, prior to the 30-day final payment due date for most of our vendors. We've already contacted all of our vendors to ask about their policies, so we're good to reschedule to next summer if it comes to that.

View Quoted Comment We are the same way. Our church offered a 10 person “ceremony” with no walk down the aisle or music, and we won’t do that. If we make it to the 25% capacity by August we can have 75 people with the music, aisle, and social distancing. It is so complicated and hard to choose if it is worth the price we paid. And like you said, planning is hard without knowing what will happen. I pretty much put all planning on hold in March and lost interest in it.

View Quoted Comment We are waiting until June, too. My SIL was in a July wedding near AA, and they have postponed until next year. One of my bridesmaid’s was going to a Detroit area wedding in July that was also postponed. Have you talked to your venue yet? My venue still wants a deposit by the end of the month, but I don’t want money tied up for something that could not happen.

Our wedding was August 1st .We went ahead and postpone due to all the uncertainty with the guidelines with Michigan. Just hearing a possible 10 people gathering starting inJune just helped with my decision. Depending on your venue, ours was nice enough to let’s us hold a date for 2021 since they are going fast and to follow up and give an answer sometime in June. Definitely see if you can hold a date just in case. That helped with some of my stress I was having. Just now I’m actually looking on postponing announcements now.

Thank you all!! This is a tough pill to swallow but it makes me feel so much better that we are all in this together! Everything will work itself out one way or another

My wedding is August 21st, my venue is being hopeful and they’re thinking of ways to use the outdoor area too to spread it out more. Things change everyday though, it’s stressing me out. We got the ok to send out our 125 invites but today I heard my old coworkers wedding, August 15th, the venue said only 10 guests or to postpone it. I don’t know whether to be hopeful anymore or not. The venue manager is the only reason I’m staying positive..

Mine is august 14th in Michigan at northville hills golf club. I’m trying to hold out hope. If not, it’ll be a super small wedding with only my half of the family. After there will be a reception in Texas for my fiancé’s side of the family.

View Quoted Comment Update on this thread: So we did in fact postpone our August 2020 wedding to June 2021 (aka less than 6 months away now!!) Postponing was the best and most relieving option for us but regardless of how things are looking in June we will be getting married one way or another! Hope all the August 2020 brides that moved forward had spectacular weddings

View Quoted Comment Best of luck to you on your special day!!!

I'm an August 21, 2021 MI bride and I know how you feel. My fiancé and I wanted to have an indoor wedding with around 140 people. Outlook doesn't look good. We are debating whether or not to go ahead with having the reception this year with a smaller headcount or move it to 2022. We have our venue and photographer however we need to book the DJ. Im a planner and the uncertainty is killing me. We decided to wait until March to make a decision. Hopefully the covid situation will be better in March along with less strict gathering restrictions.