July 2021 wedding

View quoted message Best friend said that dad don't wanna take care of the daughter. We already postponed the wedding last year my mom sees that it's too much problems to come there to the uk. Right now her country is in amber so it means testing, self isolating for 10 days and so on. I think we will zoom her life and that's it.

View quoted message Yes zoom is a great option and she will feel very much included that way.
Maybe your friend can watch on zoom too x

View quoted message Yes I know what u mean I would still like to have a dance and a mini party. The not knowing is really hard. Like u we are going ahead regardless.

I'm August rather than July, but feel exactly the same way: this whole thing is killing me. I hate not knowing how many people can be there, whether they'll have to wear masks, whether my dad can walk me down the aisle etc. Just when I thought my life was finally coming together and I can have a nice wedding like everyone else, damn covid hits. We've already postponed twice so I'm not going through that again, but I just feel so stressed and sad about the whole thing. I wish I was able to get excited and happy, like it should be, but I just want to break down in tears whenever I think about it.

View quoted message Totally with you there. Now there is talk of delaying release of restrictions by between 2 weeks and a month, if its a month my wedding will be stuck with current restrictions. I have no excitement about the wedding at all, it's ruined the whole experience for me. I just want them to tell us what the restrictions will be and when, its the limbo that is the killer!

I've spent most of the weekend in tears as it now seems pretty clear that the restrictions will end 2 days after my wedding. I dont think I even want to go ahead anymore, I'm not excited about it I'm just miserable and depressed, this isn't how you should feel less than 5 weeks before your wedding! My venue has no Saturday dates available until 2023 now so are we going to have to postpone by two years???? It all feels so ridiculously unfair, 2021 so far had got to have been the worst year of my life (I've also had two failed ivf rounds this year) .

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I’m sorry to hear your having a tough time. We are also due to get married on 17th July so I understand how upset you are. I’m devastated, and feeling very fragile.

I was so disappointed with the announcement yesterday, completely ridiculous to allow 40,000 people at football stadiums and to still have social distancing and no dancing at weddings. Lifting the 30 person cap hasn't helped most couples due to venues size. All Boris has done is passed the buck to the venue.

There should have been an option to Covid tests all guests.

We’re in discussions to move our date again, for the third time!! Who knows when it will be.

Have you considered a Sunday on a bank holiday weekend? We’re looking at that as an option.

I hope you get something sorted soon x

View quoted message Hi Vicki, I'm so sorry to hear that you are in the same boat, its awful and takes all the excitement out of it. My fiance told me yesterday he isn't excited at all and just feels flat about the whole thing. They totally should let you test all guests and then carry on as normal, most of my guests will probably be double vaccinated by our ceremony as I'm 39 so demographic is older.
We are planning to go ahead, our venue told me yesterday they think they can get 90+ in the venue with social distancing, we only have between 85-89 coming so we may not have to uninvite anyone. I'm really disappointed about the lack of dancing but I think that's something we can live with as we just want to be married now. Our dj is being a pain though and saying we have no reason to cancel him as he can still play background music, I dont want to pay over £500 for background music!
I really hope you get to a conclusion you are happy with, for us postponing would have been absolutely the last resort because our venue only do one wedding a weekend and we would have had to wait until 2023, we are also currently getting married on our anniversary which wouldn't have worked if we delayed. It's so awful all round but for us I think we just need to make the best of it now.

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I hope you have a truly wonderful day, I can understand how you feel, we both feel flat too, I feel like a lot of the enjoyment of wedding planning has been sucked out.

I think your day will be amazing, you can make it special, and your guests will just go with the flow. It is more important to do what you want as a couple it’s your day and you can make it work. It’s such a special date to get married on your anniversary, I can see why postponing it won’t work.

Do you have some outdoor space at your venue.? As dancing outside is only discouraged not illegal outside!!! Ours is a indoor city hotel, so we only have a car park lol

I also agree with you regarding the DJ, £500 for back ground music is very pricy, I hope you can sort something out with him.

We’ve made the decision to postpone again, we’ve been lucky to get a cancellation on Saturday 16th October 2021, someone has moved theirs to 2023. So I’m hoping all is ok for then, I can’t bare the thought of moving it again, I’ve spent all day ring suppliers and guests etc to coordinate the date change. I think I’ve aged 10 years since Monday.

View quoted message Just to say- 16th October is my birthday so great day! Good luck