Hi all,
Apologies for the slightly self-indulgent post (and sorry if this bums anyone out!) but would love any advice / input from anyone else getting married in Autumn / winter this year.
I'm having a bit of a wobble about our wedding which is end of November 2021. We're due to have 150 guests which obviously we can currently do now that restrictions have been lifted, and we've been really excited and grateful that we can go ahead. The caterers want to be paid in full three months before-hand which means I'm due to hand over thousands of pounds to them in the next week or so, but I can't help wondering if I'm being an idiot and being too trusting that restrictions won't be reintroduced.
I really want to just enjoy the process now but having been glued to Covid stats for the last eighteen months I can't help but get really anxious if I hear or see someone mention that we're due an Autumn / winter surge and cases are going to continue rising. Once I part with this money we won't be able to get it back or carry it over to a new date if restrictions on numbers or god forbid another lockdown gets re-introduced, because the caterers will have already spent some of it on booking staff for our date! I'm going to get some wedding insurance before I pay any big cash amounts but obviously it doesn't cover Covid.
On the other hand maybe I'm being too pessimistic, but I wondered if anyone else was going through the same thing as I sometimes feel sick with worry about it. Brides with big weddings this winter, are you just ploughing on and planning for restriction-free weddings now? I'd love to hear from other people and would love to know if you've finally been able to get excited about things! I think maybe the past year has affected me more than I thought, as I just feel like I can't trust anything and we're constantly just being gaslit!
