UPDATED: 2:07 p.m.

Wet weather has canceled the Downtown Sacramento Partnership's Friday Night Concert planned for tonight in Cesar Chavez Plaza.

"Stormy weather and rain showers are typically not a concern for us once we get into June," said DSP spokeswoman Lisa Martinez, according to a press release.

The show, featuring Mick Martin and the Blues Rockers, Tess and the Hip Trash, and The Kyle Rowland Band, has been postponed to Aug. 19, a week after the last scheduled concert in Partnership's Friday night series.

It was the kind of roll-with-the-punches outlook that event organizers throughout the region must have at the ready as they scramble to prepare for unseasonably cool and wet weather this weekend. Showers are expected along with temperatures nearly 20 degrees below normal.

Debra Hiebert, owner of Très Fabu Event Planning and Design, has a wedding this weekend at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Tahoe. The bride wants the wedding outside. If the weather stays cool, though, Hiebert may have to persuade her to move the ceremony indoors.

"Most of the women, if I may say, show up in beautiful cocktail dresses, strapless, and high heels - they usually forget to bring a wrap," Hiebert said. "They'll have to borrow a tuxedo jacket or a suit jacket" to keep warm.

"You'd think June, you'd be safe. The last couple years I could bank on outside ceremonies. I can't anymore," she added.

Sacramento Pride organizers have ordered 1,000 hot pink umbrellas for Saturday's festival and parade, which will be held as planned.

"If it turns out that it's a wet day, we'll unleash those thousand umbrellas and paint the festival hot pink," parade director Josh Jacoby said.

"We started this week with a real well-written, comprehensive operation plan. We had this nailed down weeks ago," he said.

Jacoby said his group has been very thorough, joking that he also had written a plan in case of a zombie apocalypse. "It seems like every calamity that could happen is happening to this event," he said.

Drag queen Miss Coco Peru is scheduled to perform at Sacramento Pride.

"Coco doesn't plan on changing her act because of the weather," said her manager, Michael Warwick. "Whether she does it under a canopy or not under a canopy, that's what she'll do."

Two events planned for this Saturday at Sutter's Fort have been canceled. The first was a fundraiser. The second was a celebration for the older members of California Indian tribes, which would have featured a hoop dance as well as traditional Miwok, Maidu, and Aztec dancing.

Rain all week has softened the grounds at the fort, and dancers' feet would sink into the mud even if organizers raised a tent, fort superintendent Mark Hada said.

The trees at the fort are also a concern. "We have pinecones in our trees. We have large trees. Large trees can attract lightning. Branches can blow down," he said.

Raley's Grape Escape, a food and wine tasting festival in Cesar Chavez Plaza, will be held rain or shine Saturday, according to Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau spokesman Mike Testa.

Testa said ticket sales had been higher than expected, despite the weather. "At some point, people just say this is what it is, and we're going to go out and have a good time anyway," he said.

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