Wedding Postponed? 10 Ways to Celebrate Your Original Date!
Wedding postponed? You’re not alone! COVID-19 has turned many of our plans for 2020 and 2021 upside down, especially when it comes to wedding plans.
The decision to postpone your wedding is a hard one and can feel particularly bittersweet as your original wedding date approaches.
It begs the question: what should my fiancé and I do, if anything, to celebrate our original wedding date?
If you’re still wanting to celebrate your original wedding date somehow, here are my ten favourite ways to do so!
1 – Write Each Other Love Letters
Our first idea to celebrate a wedding postponed is similar to reciting your wedding vows. Since you probably want to save your actual vows for your big day, try this instead: write each other love letters and then take turns reading them out loud to each other. This will be a sweet, intimate memory you and your fiancé will always cherish, while also giving you a hint of the romance to come on your wedding day.
2 – Celebrate Your Loved Ones
Wedding postponed? It’s natural to still want to celebrate your original date with your loved ones on this date. However, due to coronavirus restrictions in your area, you may not be able to gather in person with your close friends and family to celebrate your original wedding date. Thankfully, there are social-distancing-friendly ways to celebrate with them instead.
You could:
- Have a FaceTime or Zoom party with your closest friends and family (have people give toasts, share funny stories, etc.)
- Have a virtual game night with your people
- Invite people to stop by for a drive-by celebration or parade in your neighbourhood
3 – Reminisce on Your Relationship
Have a night where you and your fiancé take some intentional time to reminisce on your relationship. Share favourite memories, look at old photos, reminisce on your first date, and scroll all the way back on Instagram to see some of your first interactions. Remember how it all began, and be proud of how far the both of you have come!
4 – Have a Dance Party
Though your wedding may be postponed, you can still have an epic dance party! In fact, this is the perfect time to try out your wedding reception playlist and add more songs to it. Invite your family and friends to join in for an extra fun time!
Or, If you’re ready for all the feels, you may even want to play your first dance song.
5 – Eat a Dish From Your Wedding
A wedding postponed doesn’t mean you have to hold off on everything you had planned for your wedding day. With that in mind, our next celebration idea is all about delicious food. It’s not a celebration without great food, right? Consider ordering a meal from your wedding caterer or other favourite restaurant in town. Or, make one of your favourite dishes that you’re going to serve at your wedding. This will be the perfect way to bring a little bit of your wedding to the day even if the wedding itself has been postponed.
BONUS: What wedding cake flavour did you choose for your special day? Make a “Happy Original Wedding Date” cake that’s the same flavour!
6 – Make Your Signature Cocktail
After everything you’ve been through with postponing your wedding, you deserve a drink! There’s nothing like having a yummy, refreshing beverage to celebrate. You can even make the signature cocktail you’re going to serve at your wedding as a little taste of what’s to come (pun intended). Toast each other, all you’ve been through, and all the goodness that is to come!
7 – Have a Mini Photo Shoot With Your Wedding Photographer
Another fun way to celebrate your original wedding date is having a mini photo shoot on that day with your wedding photographer. It is a great way to visually document this crazy time!
So: dress up, head outside, and take some gorgeous photos with the love of your life!
8 – Plan Your Honeymoon
After postponing your wedding, spend your original wedding date planning for your honeymoon. Look up restaurants and coffee shops to visit. Read Yelp reviews. Find cool AirBnBs to stay at. Scour Pinterest. Search for fun activities you and your spouse can do, and try to look for things the locals recommend.
This will give you something totally awesome to look forward to, which is helpful on a day that could feel really bittersweet. Plus, you’ll know you’re heading into the honeymoon of your dreams after all the research you did to plan it perfectly.
9 – Go on an Adventure
If your wedding has been postponed, you may feel like you want to disconnect from all wedding-related things on your original date. That’s totally understandable! To take your mind off things, go on an adventure with your fiancé. Do something out of your norm. Go for a hike, go camping, or discover your new favourite picnic spot.
10 – Elope
Despite a wedding postponed, you can always celebrate your original wedding date by…getting married. You may not be able to have the wedding you planned, but you could still get married with a simple courthouse ceremony or have an outdoor elopement.
Then, later on when it’s safe to gather with friends and family, you can have a big reception party with everyone! This option really could be the best of both worlds, as you get to experience both an intimate elopement AND an awesome party/reception with all your loved ones!
If you decide to elope on the day of your original wedding date, make sure you have a wedding photographer capture the day for you.
Wedding Postponed = Finding Other Ways to Celebrate
Here’s the bottom line: Even with your wedding postponed, there are still great options you can do to celebrate your original date. Choosing to celebrate will help make an emotional day feel so much happier and will give you a glimpse at how completely wonderful your new wedding date will be!
2021 has been a difficult year and postponing your wedding is an incredibly hard thing to have to do. So, take this day to treat yourself and have some fun! You deserve it!
Check out more of my helpful tips and resources for your wedding day. Or if there’s something I haven’t covered, get in touch and ask away!
