Planning My Fall 2020 Wedding

Almost immediately after becoming engaged in October of 2019, I jumped into wedding planning…not necessarily because I’m excited but my family was. Don’t get me wrong, Ive always wanted to get married but never thought about the actual wedding planning part of it. My first thought was, find a venue and figure out decor!

Soon after I started searching for venues and looking for inspiration on Pinterest, I reached out to a few places. I quickly realized that my mother had always been right…I have champagne taste with beer money. My goodness I had no idea how expensive weddings were! I sat down with my mother and fiancé (separately) and created a budget.

From there I continued on the hunt for a venue and finally printed the wedding packages for about 20 venues and narrowed it from there. At that point, I already knew what month I wanted to get married and that I was going to choose a hotel. It would allow me to stay the night before and not have to go anywhere the day of my wedding.

By the beginning of January 2020 I had secured my venue for November 21, 2020. Things quickly progressed from there. By mid March I had picked my dress, venue, photographer/videographer and decor team. Then just about a week later everything STOPPED.

COVID-19 came and shook LA. Now at the end of April two of my family friends have cancelled their weddings and my fiancé is concerned that we may need to reschedule ours. I don’t want to stop the planning process and I don’t want to plan on rescheduling but the way this year is going…who knows.

So, in the midst of all this my dress is ready for my first fitting and I’ve talked to my vendors about potential date changes and picked a DJ. I haven’t ordered Save the Dates because in all honesty, does anyone care right now? I’m on the fence about rescheduling but the talk of a second wave of COVID in the fall freaks me out. Will people be scared to come? Will they all be in masks? Will the government allow events of 200+? Will we have to dance six feet apart? 

There are so many questions going through my mind but all I know is that I don’t want to give up. With all that’s going on I can just take this slowly and wait for my answers.