Hi guys,
I was originally due to get married Summer 2020 with my hen party abroad being in June 2020. This was obviously cancelled and we managed to get everything moved over to this year with no problems.
In October 2020 me and my partner decided to postpone the wedding another year as we want to have a big wedding with hopefully less restrictions so we moved the wedding to summer 2022. The hen party stayed booked for summer 2021 to save messing around. However, I have now found out that I am pregnant and I’ll be too heavily pregnant to fly. The majority of my bridal party including myself assumed that the hen would be moved to 2022 apart from a few attendees. A couple of the guests are expecting to be able to cancel the hen completely and get full refunds (this isn’t possible) and the organiser/ bridesmaid of the hen party was expecting to still go and for everyone else to go with out me.
I had spoken with the organiser around Christmas time and told them that I would be contacting our accommodation booking (as I booked this part) to see about postponing the booking to or see what our options are for cancelling and booking something else next year. So when the new year came around I got in touch with the accommodation to discuss this and told the organiser what I had done. The organiser was shocked and confused at what I had done as they were still expecting everyone to go on the hen do with out me. I explained that guests don’t want to go because I am not going and because of the current covid situation everyone is unsure if we will even be able to travel in the summer but most guests are happy to postpone until next year. I advised the organiser to contact anything else that had been booked and see about postponing or possible cancellation/ credit note option. The organiser took this as that I wanted to cancel the whole hen party and is now very upset with me. They feels that everyone has gone behind their back and made plans without informing them. I now feel terrible and feel like I have offended them.
From what I understand the activities booked can be moved over to next year or we can get a 50% refund. I have suggested postponing but the organiser doesn’t want to do this. The accommodation that has been booked can’t be refunded or moved so I think we may lose money on this.
I don’t know what to do. Should I contact my bridesmaid and try to patch things over with them and explain myself again or leave all bookings how they are. The only problem with this is the majority of the hen party don’t want to travel this year or go without me but. If we cancel the party we will lose a lot of money. If we postpone the hen party we will lose a little bit of money and risk being in the same situation this time next year with travel restrictions
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