We appreciate that this will inevitably be a stressful period for any wedding whether your wedding has been rearranged or not. However, as always, we are here with some tips to try and help you in this situation. We’ve even found some possible silver linings to come out of all this. If any couple needs advice or just a chat whether you have booked with us or not, we are always here to help just drop us a message!
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Use your time to create your own decorations: You might find that self-isolating or being on lockdown gives you more time on your hands. Why not try using Pinterest to help create a mood board or to teach yourself how to make your own decorations, wedding favours or invitations – use the time to your advantage.



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Book your Suppliers: Due to so many weddings are being postponed until 2021, suppliers are now being booked up quicker than ever. If your wedding has been rearranged, try to contact your original suppliers as quickly as you can to ensure they are still available for your new date. Alternatively, if your wedding was already originally booked for 2021 and you had your eye on your dream supplier, make sure you contact them quickly as well before their diary becomes fully booked with rearranged weddings

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Virtual Tours/video calls and see if they can send samples in the post: Physical meetings might not be possible due to the current situation. However virtual meetings and calls are still possible. If you want to visit your venue again to gather decoration ideas, ask them if they can give you a virtual tour instead. Alternatively, some suppliers might be able to send you samples of their products to try at home before making the decision to book them i.e. cake samples, fabric samples, or they could send photos/videos of their work to you. You can test out your entire wedding from the comfort of your own sofa.
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Create your own wedding website: You will probably want to keep in contact with all of your friends and family to update them with any changes to your wedding. Creating a wedding website is an easy way to update them all in one place. You could even include a feature to video chat with your friends and family and also potentially your suppliers – we have a great contact for Web Design if you want a hand with setting your website up.


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Follow Hair/Make-Up Tutorials: Make up or hair trials might not be possible if you are in isolation. Try following different make-up artist’s or hair dresser’s social media pages or their websites to see if they do tutorial videos to help you figure out what hair or make up style you would like on your day.
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Potential change of wedding season: If you have had to rearrange your wedding date, your new date might take place in a new season of the year than what you had originally planned. This could mean that you might want to reconsider your colour scheme or food choices. If you are now having a summer wedding instead of early spring, you may want to hold filed games or other summer entertainment like a bouncy castle. Alternatively, you might now have a winter wedding date. (We have some helpful winter wedding tips on our Winter Wedding Blog if you need any advice). You might even want to change your first dance song to something more up to date with your new wedding date.

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More time to save: There are still positives to come out of this situation. One of those might be the extra time you now have to plan your wedding. The extra time might even take a bit of stress off any wedding payments you might have to make. You may even be able to save more money to spend on those additional touches that your budget couldn’t stretch to for your original wedding date.

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Reprinting Invitations:You may need to consider if you had already had your save the dates or invitations made with your original date on, they might need to be reprinted with your new date on.
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Updated Guest List: If your rearranged date isn’t for another year, you may need to consider that your guest list and therefore your table plan may need to be updated. You may find that people aren’t able to attend anymore or alternatively you may have new guests who you would like to invite.

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Dress/Suit Fittings: If you have already found your dress/bridesmaids dresses or suits, then you might need another fitting closer to your new wedding date to make room for any necessary alterations.



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