Breaking down!

Omg my gosh noooooo!!! My wedding is Nov 7 as well I’m hoping no one a part of my party gets COVID in the meantime.
Don’t break down, you got this! I’m a procrastinator so I just booked all my vendors like a week ago. 😂😂 To my surprise it didn’t take me long to find people everyone had my day available, I guess because people moved their events to next year. You got it girl!!

I would find a caterer ASAP as that is a very important part of the wedding reception.

Oh man, i hope your mom will be ok!

Is there a reason you're waiting sooo late to pick a caterer and MUA/hairstylist?

I hope your mom feels better, it sucks that she won't be able to attend the wedding.

I would definitely start looking for those vendors though!

Wow, I'm sorry that you're going through this. I'm praying for this morning. Jesus is already there with you.

I don’t think it’s hopeless in terms of your mom being able to attend the wedding! It looks like your wedding date isn’t until 11-7 (still 23 days away), and positive cases only need to quarantine for 10-14 days. If she is feeling better, she could retake the test a couple days prior to your wedding to make sure she tests negative. In the meantime, don’t stress about things you cannot control; instead, focus on the ones you can. (Plus, having goals to accomplish can be a great distraction for you right now) Number one priority right now should be finding a caterer! You need to start calling around immediately, as this is incredibly last-minute, and one of the most important vendors for your wedding!

I’m sorry about your mom!! If it’s any consolation we booked our caterer the Wednesday before our Saturday wedding LOL. We did a backyard reception and we kept thinking oh we’ll just call City BBQ at some point. But at the last minute we went with a local caterer who we heard made amazing boxed dinners, which was our preference. He was able to squeeze in our order into his schedule, handled the delivery with a smile, and it was perfection! You got this!

I hope your mom makes it through covid as comfortably as possible. Your wedding will be okay!

The good news is, if you have 23 days to go, unless your mom is hospitalized or has a fever on the day of/day before your wedding, her covid diagnoses isn't a reason for her not to attend. The CDC says people only need to isolate for 10 days from the onset of symptoms or 20 days of someone becomes severely I'll as long as they don't have a fever (and haven't taken Tylenol or something to get rid of a fever).
Send your photographer a message saying that if you don't hear back within 24 hours, you'll have to find someone else and you'll expect them to return your deposit. If you don't hear back within 24 hours, start reaching out to friends/family to see if they know anyone and/or local art schools to see if any students would be interested in shooting your wedding.
A makeup/hairstyle plan isn't 100% necessary. If your having your hair and makeup done professionally, let the professional decide for you. If not, and you haven't come up with a plan, just do whatever you would do if you were going to someone else's wedding, but also lightly fill in your eyebrows, wear a slightly darker lip color than you normally would (or one that's slightly darker than your lips if you don't normally wear one) and add an extra coat of mascara.
Use all of the brainpower you have available for wedding planning to work on finding a caterer. You may not get a ton of say in what food you serve, but you should be able to find one who's willing to cater your wedding. If that doesn't work, reach out to the prepared foods section at a grocery store. Whole Foods is a good one, but most large grocery stores should be able to help you with this.

Relevant CDC guidance: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/duration-isolation.html#:~:text=for%20most%20persons%20with%20covid,with%20improvement%20of%20other%20symptoms.