Vanderpump Rules' Stassi Schroeder Shares How Coronavirus Might Impact Her Wedding

Stassi Schroeder's wedding plans are still a large TBD as she and fiancé Beau Clark are trying to stay optimistic about their wedding plans amid the ever-evolving coronavirus pandemic. During a chat with Andy Cohen on an at-home edition of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, Schroeder, 31, revealed that she and Clark, 39, are still hopeful that they'll be able to move forward with their destination wedding this fall.

When asked about the status of their pending nuptials, the Vanderpump Rules star replied with an exasperated, "Who the heck knows?" but added that for the time being, they're planning on keeping their original October wedding date for an extravagant ceremony in Rome.

"We're keeping on it," Schroeder told Cohen. "We bought our flights because they're really cheap right now." Added Clark, "Fingers crossed."

Why Is Stassi Schroeder's Wedding in Italy?

The couple, who got engaged in July 2019, originally decided to get married in Italy because Schroeder wanted a smaller wedding and Clark's family is originally from the country. During their conversation, Cohen also asked Clark about how his family in Italy is doing. (Presently, more than 12,000 people have reportedly died due to the coronavirus.)

"They're all healthy, but they're not allowed to leave, like, 200 meters from their homes now," Clark said. "The army's there, I guess. They're crazy quarantined compared to us in the States."

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Why Is It in the Fall?

Schroeder has been vocal about her hopes for a fall wedding since the pair got engaged last summer. "Beau and I agreed on, right when we got engaged, that we don't want to sweat at our wedding," she said during a live taping of her podcast Basically Stassi last November. "We are not going to sweat, no one at my wedding is going to sweat."

"It's going to be a crisp, fall wedding," Clark added at the time.

Who's Postponing Their Weddings?

Presently, numerous celebrities have rescheduled their wedding plans in accordance with CDC regulations that ban large gatherings and impose travel restrictions that have grounded many international flights. Schroeder's castmate Lala Kent has since postponed her spring 2020 wedding to a later date. Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom were two of the first A-listers to publicly postpone their nuptials, which were originally set to take place in Japan (Perry likely has to take added precautions since she is currently pregnant with her first child). Other couples like Princess Beatrice and Eduardo Mozzi have also put a pause in their plans as the coronavirus has continued to devastate countries around the world.

Wedding planners tell The Knot that the best way to move forward with wedding planning is to listen, first and foremost, to the World Health Organization and to keep guests posted on a weekly basis. "We need to accept that this is a global situation," Giovana Dualibe, the CEO of Belief Wedding Creators, an international community for wedding planners, tells The Knot. Added Sabrina Gambato of Milan-based wedding planning service Ti Amo Ti Sposo, "We ask our couples to follow the World Health Organization procedures to protect them against the virus."

Real-life couples've have had to postpone have seen a bright side to the unexpected delay, however: a recalibration of priorities and more appreciation for their partners.

"Our advice to other couples going through this same experience is to remember why you're getting married," real bride Sareh Yates tells The Knot. "It's so easy to get caught up in being a bride that you can lose sight of being a wife. These trying times have brought us so much closer, we've kept an honest and open line of communication, we constantly check in with one another and if one of us is starting to feel the weight of everything, the other one steps up to ease their mind."