Am i unreasonable to ask bride to require masks at wedding when young kids are attending?

This is so hard because I feel for you and understand exactly where you’re coming from! Of my own experience, I just attended a wedding this past weekend while the CDC is continuing to recommend masks indoors. Unfortunately, even though the bride and groom purchased lovely rose colored masks for everyone, nobody consistently wore them at the beginning of the evening. After dinner and cocktail hour, there was nobody wearing masks the rest of the night. Perhaps she foresees this happening, or she doesn’t care enough in the first place, but I think at this point in time anybody going to a wedding is assuming risks.


So now you do you have a choice to make of whether you feel comfortable bringing your littles or even you yourself. Just know that you can bring up the fact that we are still in a pandemic if you decide not to go, and remember “no“ is a full sentence ❤️

View Quoted Comment You are completely denying reality and scientific facts. There is no proof that the masks help the person who has caught the virus not to spread it. Every day there are new cases of people who were vaccinated and still caught the virus, not to mention healthy people who died and had other health problems after taking the vaccine. It is useless to try to talk to people who have already convinced themselves that they are right. People who have been vaccinated get the virus as well as those who have not been vaccinated.

View Quoted Comment Hahahahah you don't have proof of anything you're talking about. And every day there are new cases of vaccinated people who caught the virus, not to mention cases of healthy people who died and had other health problems after taking the vaccine. You deny the reality that is in front of your eyes.

Unfortunately, you can't tell someone else how to celebrate their own wedding. While it is recommended by the CDC that people wear masks, it is not required. The best you can do is have your kids wear masks or not bring them. While I do understand your frustration, as a bride who got married during COVID and had to deal with the "will we have to wear masks or won't we" dilemma, please understand that her decision to not require masks was probably not made lightly. Also, COVID wedding planning is VERY stressful and the couple may feel like there is a lot they missed out on. It was hard to have showers that were masked and socially distanced, not be able to celebrate holidays with family, plan a wedding, deal with everyone's opinion on all of the aspects of the wedding, and then on top of that have people chiming in about how we should do masks. This is a once-in-a-lifetime event for the couple that unfortunately falls during a difficult period of time. Guests who want to wear masks will. Guests who don't won't. It's probably not a good idea to bring masks to pass out to people as this is not your event.

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Stop. The proof is what I do see with my own eyes. At my work. As a doctor. That and the multitude of accurate data and studies. Vaccinated people get the virus, but to a lesser number and much milder illness. The hospitals are full of unvaxed people who are also acting as a variant source in the community.

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Sweetie, I think you need to re-read my comment. I specifically stated that people who have had the vaccine CAN still get the virus. Like, I said it plain as day 🤔

As far as there being no proof that masks help prevent the spread of viruses… there is TONS of scientific proof. Like tons LOL We’ve practice mask wearing for years upon years before Covid was even a thing. Why do you think surgeons wear masks while performing surgeries or why doctors offices have for years asked anyone with a cough or presenting symptoms of illness to wear masks while in the waiting room? (I am an MRI tech that has worked in countless offices, hospitals, and ER rooms… this has been standard in every single one for the past 10 years)
If anyone is denying scientific facts here, it’s you. The only thing correct about your statement was that it’s useless to try to talk to people who have already convinced themselves that they are right… because you have apparently convinced yourself to believe what you want to, and ignore the science, facts and years upon years of research done by scientists and medical professionals that prove you wrong.
Just for the record though, here is a Scientific fact-based article published by Mayo Clinic about how masks prevent the spread of viruses. Because, you know, you wouldn’t want to “completely deny reality and scientific facts” ☺️
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-mask/art-20485449

View Quoted Comment And here are more, just in case you’re still confused 😉


https://files.fast.ai/papers/masks_lit_review.pdf


https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2007800


https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2#sec3


https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/masking-science-sars-cov2.html


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kxan.com/news/coronavirus/do-face-masks-work-here-are-49-scientific-studies-that-explain-why-they-do/amp/



https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg6296



https://www.healthline.com/health-news/the-simple-science-behind-why-masks-work#growing-evidence-supports-mask-effectiveness

Access your own risk and your children’s risk and go from there. I suggest However you Act accordingly as to how you handle yourself in other situations. Do you work out at a gym during peak times or go grocery shopping on a busy Saturday where the general public gets to choose wether or not to wear masks? How about take your kids to the farm to join lots of other people and their kids to pick out pumpkins and drink Apple cider together some of whom are also choosing to wear or not wear masks? If you do these activities in other crowded situations where people get to choose I’m after your sister may get upset and feel your avoiding her Wedding for other their reasons. To me Singling out her Wedding would be more unreasonable than asking her if you could pass out masks at her Wedding, especially if you go to busy establishments that let the public choose anyway.