What if I anticipate I may have to cancel my wedding due to death or illness in the family?
When you decide to get married, if you know that there is someone who is ill, and you do anticipate that unfortunately before your wedding date, or very close to your wedding date, or even somehow during the planning process that person could pass away, you want to adjust accordingly. So I even have had people who have postponed weddings and said, you know they have booked me and they have said "We want to get married but someone got sicker than we anticipated, the illness progressed rapidly." Things like that. You want to definitely prepare for those things. So if you know ahead of time, that if someone passes away it is going to affect you being able to get married either financially, physically, emotionally, whatever it is, you need to select vendors who are flexible. So you need to say that unfortunately we do have someone that is sick in our family. And be very upfront with these vendors. Say "what are your parameters, what do I need to do if this were to happen that I need to change my date?" You do not ever want to put yourself up into a position of fail. You want to make sure that you know exactly what your parameters are, what you can and can not do. And in the long run if it turns out that you just say "look I can not find enough people to basically accommodate me, you just need to put it on hold. I have definitely had people that have decided to get married and some people physically say, "I want to be married. I am in love with this person. I do not want to wait. But maybe we will wait to have the celebration." And in that case it is really appropriate to send an announcement to say, we are the new Mr. and Mrs. and our party will be here soon.
