Thanks for your comment. You can simply mail or e-mail a postponement notice to the guests invited to the later reception, letting them know the event was rescheduled.

“We want to make sure our wedding celebration is safe for all, so we have decided to reschedule the big day. We will be married at-home during quarantine, and can’t wait to celebrate with you once it’s safe to gather on [new date]. ”

Here are my additional tips: Before you consider going ahead with your wedding if it is scheduled between now and July, ask yourself if you want to deal with this stress on your wedding. You should assume guests will back out, you may need to prohibit touching or dancing, and that the circumstances are changing daily. I would recommend trying to reschedule no sonner than October or getting your money back and starting fresh. Getting your money back is important because the wedding industry will experience great turmoil over the next few months and if your vendor closes up shop, you may lose the money AND not have the wedding. I am not providing legal advice and you should always consult a licensed attorney, but look at your contracts and carefully review the impossibility or force majeure provisions. You may have a justification that allows you to terminate the contract with no penalty and possibly recover your money. You need to act fast if this is important to you because this is the time where these kinds of clauses are possible (e.g. while there are binding legal obligations to shelter-in-place, quarantine, etc.). Getting out of the hotel contract was essential for us because the new rates the hotel wanted for the date we were considering were almost $200 more per night and I do not want to ask my guests to pay significantly more.

I’m sorry to all my fellow wedding planners out there, this was not our year. However, I am confident we will all someday be able to enjoy the weddings we have been planning.