What should I do if I need to cancel my wedding due to death, illness or natural disaster?
If you have to cancel a wedding due to what we call a natural disaster, a death in the family, an illness, something that is beyond your control but that is not a change off heart, meaning that you have decided that you will be getting married because a death in the family does not keep you from getting married. It just often means that either it is a financial burden or you emotionally can not go through the process of getting married. You want to do the exact the same thing. If the invitations have already gone out you need to send a phone call to all of your guests and let them know. That is another really good way to…usually your guests will know that the person passed or will also want to know if you are sick or whatever the case has been. So it is a really good way of spreading the news of whatever has happened. If the invitations have not gone out, you definitely have to send a card of some sort, a note to each guest that would have been invited or even people that could have known about it. And said, “Regretfully, that so and so has passed away in our lives, or unfortunately we are ill or unfortunately financially we can no longer have this wedding.” And things like that are okay to say. It is not shameful to say we can no longer have a wedding. People will still be happy for you that you are getting married. And you still want to remind people that it is a joyous time but you just unfortunately can not fulfil what you thought you could before. People have also asked me they said, “Well, it a year how? And I haven't sent and save the date cards that I'm not going to be getting married” You need to basically decide that on your own. If you feel like enough people know about the wedding, sending a card is appropriate because you don't want people to think they are not getting invited to a wedding that happened. And you don't want there to be any gossip or miscommunication in that regard.
