Postponement FAQ's
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5. Will anything else be different? / Are you still doing the ceremony?
Changing venues was a big shift from our original plans. The only one that is an obvious change for all guests is the food choice on the second round of invitations. Most of the other changes are only noticeable to us and those involved in the planning of the wedding. Vendor-wise the other most notable is the change of videographer due to new-date scheduling issues.
We will be doing the ceremony as originally planned for two reasons: it would have happened that way had we not been forced to postpone, and not everyone was there for our actual wedding ceremony that we would have liked to be there.
We recorded a video almost immediately after the original postponement. It has more in-depth details about all of our plans unraveling. If you are interested in watching it, you can do so here0 comments - Leave a comment -
4. Why did the venue change?As mentioned previously, our original venue was unable to give us a straight answer about whether or not April 4th, 2020 would work out or not. We actually had originally only postponed about six months to November, hoping that the pandemic would have run it's course by then. Our hopeful optimism was wrong. And though Florida was open by that point, the original venue was not comfortable allowing non-members to host events. Understandable, but disappointing. We postponed for a second time another six months. As we entered 2021 we were still tiptoeing on hopeful optimism that this second try would work out, but the burn from the past two postponements was lingering. Thankfully, we were given the opportunity to change venues by a dear family member! The new venue is completely on board with our plans for our sequel wedding. As the saying goes; third time's a charm!
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3. So why have another wedding then? Save the money instead, maybe?Though it was our choice to postpone, it was a choice we, along with so many other people for so many situations, were forced to make. This was something no-one saw coming. If there wasn't a global pandemic, we would have had the wedding April 4th, 2020 exactly the way it was planned for two years prior. Also, since it was postponed two-weeks out, the wedding was already almost completely paid for. We would have lost it all if we had completely canceled.
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2. But aren't you married now?
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Yes! That long and difficult discussion also gave us the idea to do a sort-of elopement. Not knowing when or how we would be able to go through with the wedding was too big of a question mark to put it off for any longer. Also, an almost two-year engagement was long enough! It was very small, only immediate family and bridal party were in attendance. We are glad that we went through with the "elopement" micro-wedding because had we not, we would not have been able to move in together, buy our house, or get our dog. All things that we are so grateful to have done in the past year.
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1.Why did you postpone the wedding?
Our venue was unable to provide us with complete assurance that they would be open on April 4th, 2020. COVID had just become a big concern and Florida was still trying to figure out what to do two-weeks out from our original date. We thought of every scenario to try to make the wedding happen on the original date. We almost had it at a barn-venue and we almost had it in someone's yard! That version of the wedding was almost completely planned out until we realized that Florida might go into lockdown. After probably a week of rush-planning a backup wedding plan, we sat down and had the very difficult discussion that ended with our decision to postpone the wedding. And good thing that we did, because two days before the original date, on April 2nd, Florida went into lockdown.
