Can’t afford wedding following coronavirus

Aylesbury_Duck

bradders1983 said:

Hang on....surely the venue wont be able to honour the booking anyway due to the current restriction in place? They wont have changed that drastically by next month.

OP - how many people is it booked for?

The current restriction is up to 30, and that doesn't change on Monday despite the 'rule of six' coming into play then.  I suspect (hope) that since money was clearly tight for OP in the first place, they weren't spending a fortune on a large wedding, so they may have 30 guests or fewer anyway.

If they have more guests, it's certainly something to challenge with the venue because they couldn't host it under the existing rules anyway.

bradders1983

Aylesbury_Duck said:

bradders1983 said:

Hang on....surely the venue wont be able to honour the booking anyway due to the current restriction in place? They wont have changed that drastically by next month.

OP - how many people is it booked for?

The current restriction is up to 30, and that doesn't change on Monday despite the 'rule of six' coming into play then.  I suspect (hope) that since money was clearly tight for OP in the first place, they weren't spending a fortune on a large wedding, so they may have 30 guests or fewer anyway.

If they have more guests, it's certainly something to challenge with the venue because they couldn't host it under the existing rules anyway.

I havent seen the regs yet but I suspect when it says weddings are exempt from the rule of 6 it is referring to the actual ceremony, and not the 8 hour booze up afterwards.  I stand to be corrected on this though. 

Aylesbury_Duck

bradders1983 said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

bradders1983 said:

Hang on....surely the venue wont be able to honour the booking anyway due to the current restriction in place? They wont have changed that drastically by next month.

OP - how many people is it booked for?

The current restriction is up to 30, and that doesn't change on Monday despite the 'rule of six' coming into play then.  I suspect (hope) that since money was clearly tight for OP in the first place, they weren't spending a fortune on a large wedding, so they may have 30 guests or fewer anyway.

If they have more guests, it's certainly something to challenge with the venue because they couldn't host it under the existing rules anyway.

I havent seen the regs yet but I suspect when it says weddings are exempt from the rule of 6 it is referring to the actual ceremony, and not the 8 hour booze up afterwards.  I stand to be corrected on this though. 

It's ceremonies and "sit-down receptions" that are restricted to 30 guests or fewer.  So a sit-down 8 hour booze up is ok    Otherwise Wetherspoons would go out of business!

bradders1983

Are those the amended regs from Monday onwards? Link? Interested to read them.

Aylesbury_Duck

I found this:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-52811509
 
OP needs to look at the new rules thoroughly and see if any of them mean that the venue can't provide what the contract says.

bradders1983

Yes, of course everyone knows the virus famously doesnt spread at wedding receptions 🙄 utter farce of a rule. Either have a blanket ban for gatherings under 30 or none at all. You dont need a dried chicken breast in a tomato sauce and overdone veg in a hotel function room to get married.

born_again

bradders1983 said:

Are those the amended regs from Monday onwards? Link? Interested to read them.

Covid secure weddings are exempt. So it can go ahead at the moment.

born_again

gettingtheresometime said:

Takmon said:

Jmr141512 said:

With everything going on we had hoped things would improve but they got worse! We were speaking to the venue but if I’m honest we had so much going on. We have pretty much begged them to see if we can move the date but they said we’re being unreasonable! My partner being made redundant wasn’t really something we could see coming. We just can’t afford to pay anything to them, our essential bills need covering as our priority and we don’t have anything left.

This sounds like your finances are in a right mess. Where has the money gone that you were going to use for the wedding because if you manage your finances properly before this then you would have had an emergency fund for eventualities such as losing a job and then your wedding fund on top of this. So if you have no money at all left after your partner being made redundant then it sounds like you couldn't afford this wedding in the first place.

Hindsight is always 20:20 

Well given the wedding was next month (October), then surely they already had the funds for final payment in place. Can't see any mention of the date it was required. 
But this is hardly hindsight. More a planned & expected expense that should have been budgeted for already.

Yes one party has now been made redundant. But that should not really effect the wedding unless finances were already on a knife edge.

jon81uk

bradders1983 said:

Yes, of course everyone knows the virus famously doesnt spread at wedding receptions 🙄 utter farce of a rule. Either have a blanket ban for gatherings under 30 or none at all. You dont need a dried chicken breast in a tomato sauce and overdone veg in a hotel function room to get married.

Most people only attend one wedding a year, they aren't too common. Some people were hosting multiple house parties of 30 people every week. Yes the virus can spread at both, but allowing wedding receptions to happen doesn't seem unreasonable.

bradders1983

Aye but now 7 people sat in a beer garden for an hour is frowned upon, but 30 people sat round a table, indoors, for 6 hours (there are no time limits I see) getting off their faces and probably shouting across the table spreading their potential germs, is fine. Utterly ridiculous the inconsistency in all this.