We’re now over three months in and I’ve watched the wedding dates of many of our couples come and go, after their plans have been cancelled, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Months or years of anticipation and all the excitement of marrying your true love, now parked with little known of when new plans can be made.
We’ve been contacted by couples who have decided to go ahead and set new dates, mostly choosing to postpone until summer 2021, by which time we hope, things will be back to normal. Change the date cards are a perfect means of communicating your new plans, if you had already sent out your wedding invitations.
Boris just gave the green light for weddings of up to 30 guests, so I conducted an Instagram poll to see how couples felt about this and followed up with some direct messages. Almost a 50/50 split down the middle - An allowance of 30 guests being welcome news for some, but not for others.
It is likely that we will see a trend in couples scaling back their plans and opting for more intimate events. Even before the outbreak, smaller weddings were growing in popularity, with couples choosing to surround themselves with just their closest loved ones. There are benefits of a smaller guest list - You can focus on creating an incredibly personal and unforgettable experience for you and your guests. What’s important to remember is that the size of your guest list doesn’t mean anything else needs to be small. You can go big on the dress, flowers, cake, stationery, food and venue if you so desire. There is something incredibly romantic about the idea of a ‘new normal’ micro wedding. I’ve been so touched by images on social media of couples who’ve found a way to marry their true love in lockdown and accessorising their wedding attire with a face mask.
For some, it’s just not workable to cull their guest list down to 30. When Adam I got married, the landscape of the event was severely off balance. I had very little family, whereas Adam coming from a large Catholic bunch had over 50 close family members, who you could say were non-negotiable. Regardless of our efforts to keep our wedding ‘intimate’ we ended up with over 140 attendees - None of whom we felt comfortable leaving out of the celebrations.
We like you, are eagerly waiting for good news, a vaccine or miracle treatment. We’re hopeful that 2021 will be a bumper year for weddings and we can’t wait to get back to doing what we love most, creating special stationery for your wedding day.