The champagne was on ice…but it’s probably going back into the wine cellar now.

For the second time in two weeks, same-sex couples prepared to tie the knot. And for the second time, they could not say their vows.

Last week, couples had lined up outside West Hollywood and Los Angeles City Halls, waiting for U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker to allow same-sex marriages to resume. Instead, Walker ruled that marriages could resume on Wednesday August 18, unless a higher court issued a stay. Many couples had resumed making plans when, on Monday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals put a stay on Walker’s ruling invalidating Proposition 8, the 2008 voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in California. No same-sex marriages will be allowed in the state until the appeals court has decided the case.

The 9th Circuit expedited the trial schedule for the appeal, with briefings from both sides now due in December. Still, for couples who had hoped to get married right away, it will now be months or years before they could have another chance to go to the altar.

“We’re pretty devastated,” said Scott Campbell, who had been planning to conduct a ceremony with his partner at West Hollywood City hall on Thursday. “The worst thing is that twice now we’ve gotten really excited about being able to express our love and get married, and twice it’s been taken away. The whole thing about being a second-class citizen never really hit home until just now.”

Couples were not the only ones whose plans were interrupted by the 9th Circuit’s ruling. Businesses that had hoped a wave of same-sex weddings would provide a boom will now also have to put their products back on the shelves.

Tom Rosa, owner of Cake and Art, a cake shop on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, said he had orders for a dozen wedding cakes this week, including a centerpiece for the ceremonies that were being planned at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center on Thursday. All of the orders were cancelled.

“When gay weddings started occurring back in 2008, we got swamped,” Rosa said. “At that time, a lot of businesses looked at the gay wedding boom as something to latch onto, and a lot of those fell through. This time, we had a lot more people who wanted to wait and see. The good thing about hearing on Monday was that we hadn’t started making the cakes yet.”

GBK Productions hosted a gay and lesbian wedding expo in 2008, after same-sex marriages first became legal. The group had planned a similar event several weeks from now, until the 9th Circuit’s ruling.

“There is easily close to fifty million dollars worth of weddings for caterers, rental companies, and planners such as ourselves, that has been lost over these past two years due to the fact that gays and lesbians can’t get married,” said Gavin Keilly, CEO of GBK Productions. “There are not really lots of couples doing wedding-like commitment ceremonies. If it can’t be a wedding, there’s no need to spend all that money for the big type of event.”

West Hollywood City Councilmember John Duran said a lot of couples he spoke with had been making wedding preparations with trepidation, after the experience with Proposition 8.

“It’s been a whirlwind of activity over the past couple weeks,” Duran said. “We were prepared for the possibility of getting back into performing marriages, but this time felt different. Last time, it seemed like an open-ended process. This time, with people who were contacting me, I felt like I had to say, ‘go carefully’. We were making plans, but I also told people to keep watching the news.”