Wedding Etiquette Forum

changing wedding date

my fiance and i had originally planned to get married this year (july 20, 2013) and we have had the church and reception booked for over a year now. in september my fiance had a very serious bad reaction to a hormone shot he was given by his doctor, it has set him into very depersonalized state, he is suffering from fogginess, dizziness, and very serious anxiety, it is hard for him to even leave the house sometimes because of the way he feels. due to his current health condition, we have decided to "move" our wedding to next year (july 19, 2014), however, all of our families and friends had already known about our date this year, we never sent save the dates, but just word of mouth and family talk. should we send something out saying we have changed our date so that people do not start making travel plans or anything like that, or do we just leave it go to word of mouth again? not sure what is the proper thing to do in a situation like this!

Re: changing wedding date

  • You can spread by word of mouth. STD invite, so if there are people you are on the fence about don't send them anything. I know a lot of posters will say to send STD about 69 months but I think they should be sent between 912 months since I view them more for an engagement that is more than 1 year unless it is a holiday weekend or some other busy time.
    You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. - Barbara DeAngelis
  • I would send out new STDs by April to make it clear to everyone that the July 2013 wedding isn't happening far enough in advance.  
  • If you did not send out STDs, then you can just let people know via word of mouth that the date is changing. Whether you send STDs for the new date is up to you. Sorry your FI is having to go through this. 
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