covid Fatigue......

I’m only doing 50 people and we aren’t requiring them to wear mask or sit 6 ft a part. I feel like if they don’t want to come that’s fine. But I like being able to see people’s faces and such. I feel like this covid thing is starting to die down so hopefully it won’t last that long. But to each there own

View Quoted Comment Where'd you research the "science", YouTube and OANN? I'll chastise anyone who's willing to risk the lives of others with no regards. 👍 Your "choices" jeopardize the health and safety of others just so you can live in a comfortable denial bubble where mask elastic doesn't hurt your ears. This pandemic has killed or disabled plenty of people who are most likely younger, healthier, and more active than you. But it feels better to believe that's all a lie, right? I get you.

View Quoted Comment I’m not going to travel down this road with you. I don’t even debate this with my liberal family members. I know them and I don’t. I know you so why should I have this conversation with you. We are free thinkers and are so over this plandemic. It’s our choice and our family understands how we feel. The family members not comfortable are not coming. I’m absolutely done with this conversation.


Take care of your wedding and I’ll take care of my own. I’m sure you have lots to do as I do too.

View Quoted Comment Thank you for your response. Our family understands that if they are uncomfortable they aren’t coming. I’m videoing it and wil send the link. I debated live streaming it but decided against it. I don’t want masks covering faces.


Good luck with your wonderful day.

View Quoted Comment So smart! Tough If you’ve always dreamed of your wedding, but so much easier than dealing with all of this!

View Quoted Comment I feel for you. The shot “vaccine” box states that it does not prevent the Covid 19. It’s difficult to continue changing plans especially since you have deposits with vendors. Yes, it is a unique illness and some are affected due to underlying health issues. Knowing this We didn’t want this to stop our lives . The ones that were concerned decided to not attend and the ones ok with being in public are attending. We are having a Thursday evening wedding by candlelight and a hor dourves reception. We have confirmed 36.


We are sending a link to everyone who didn’t attend so they can watch the wedding.

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I don't know you and quite frankly don't care about you, but that won't stop me from doing everything I can to protect you: wearing a mask, washing my hands, staying home when I can, and getting the vaccine when my time comes around. If you'd taken the time at all to have honest and open conversations with your liberal family members, you'd understand that they are not motivated by their own comfort, but by their love for you and desire to protect you and others. The people who choose not to attend weddings right now are doing so not out of rudeness or disrespect, but out of responsibility and a duty to protect themselves and others. For the same reason I obey stop signs, I know that my actions can have dire consequences for others. I know the world can be a dangerous place and that there aren't always easy explanations for why that is. I don't live in fear, but I do live by taking the careful precautions that keep the welfare of myself and others in mind. I know in a chaotic world, the best and only thing I can do is try to be as responsible as I can with the facts as they stand.

Best of luck with your wedding and I wish you and yours health and happiness while we all try to pull through this together. I've booked all my vendors, but like many others here, I'm in an awkward state of limbo as I try to decide if I can continue planning, or if I need to start rescheduling. :\

View Quoted Comment How you handle your affair, well that’s for you to decide and the both of your decision. Everyone has a certain comfort level and ours is that we continue our lives how we wish to. We are not allowing this to dictate our lives and neither of us or any family members have had to quarantine because we never got the virus strain. We have been over this since last May. Happy that everything is coming together


I have had many conversations with my liberal family members and we have made a rule to not push on them. We are videoing the event and will send a copy of it to them.
Good luck with your planning and replanning. I’m sure whatever you end up doing will be fabulous.

View Quoted Comment I agree with you. I should have out what you wrote “ don’t come at me brides”. I live it!!. I did get pushback from one bride.


I’m glad to read you are proceeding ahead with your affair Covid free, I am as well. My personal opinion is that if this continues to be a center point we will never get back to normal. Our rule is no masks during pictures. I don’t want them in the photos.

View Quoted Comment Ours is a weeknight, candlelight and only 33 people we know and trust., He said he doesn’t care if anyone doesn’t show up he’s marrying me and that’s all gay matters.

View Quoted Comment I hope you have a glorious day. It will workout however it is meant to be. The most important thing is the two of you joint your lives together and really that’s all that matters.


Hugs to you and all

View Quoted Comment I'm so tired of people accusing those who are less cautious of covid of being anti-science dolts. I know the science like the back of my hand. I worked in city government in public health when the pandemic started and was recommending masks internally when Fauci was still advising against them. I was tracking reports starting at the end of January. During the lockdown, I lived alone for months with literally zero outside contact. I know the science and took the pandemic extremely seriously.


The science (published studies) indicates that Covid is much less deadly than we thought, especially for the young and healthy. What a relief! The science shows modest mitigation from masks. The science also shows a lack of spread through surface contact and a lower risk of spread outside. Phew!
Also, the science can only be filtered through a cost-benefit analysis, it cannot itself be the cost-benefit analysis. Those who acknowledge that covid is real but do not currently support strict mitigation measures are not "anti-science" YouTube followers. They are making a different cost-benefit calculation than you are.
So maybe dial back the smugness.

View Quoted Comment I am not the person you're replying to, but please don't wear a mask/stay home/whatever you're doing because of me or her or someone else. We're not asking you to. A year into this, I don't care how someone else lives their life so don't martyr yourself for us. Do what you want, for you.


This thread is full of people who are going ahead with their weddings, as are we. And we have people from all over the Covid caution spectrum attending.

View Quoted Comment "Also, the science can only be filtered through a cost-benefit analysis, it cannot itself be the cost-benefit analysis. Those who acknowledge that covid is real but do not currently support strict mitigation measures are not "anti-science" YouTube followers. They are making a different cost-benefit calculation than you are."
Perfectly said.

We are still going on as planned this month on the 20th. We had started everything before covid came along and had to adjust some things. We are having it outside and only have 30 people attending. We also had masks and personal hand sanitizer available for our guests.

We are also livestreaming the wedding for my family who did not feel comfortable traveling from Maine, Maryland, Florida and Pennsylvania due to covid.

View Quoted Comment You're not really at all in the same category as someone who goes around calling the pandemic the "plandemic," and claims the virus is not any worse than the flu, which is just factually untrue. So maybe stop clutching your pearls and pretending this has anything to do with you. It's one thing to live your life freely while taking proper precautions. It's another to pretend that nothing unusual is happening and that your actions have no consequences. The science says young people will generally do fine with the virus, that's true. But young people can also carry the virus to older people. The focus should not just be on how we'll personally be affected, but how we might affect others. I'm just being the voice of reason here reminding people that your actions could have consequences. Your "cost-benefit" analysis is gambling the health and safety of others.


Tiger Bride it's nice that you don't want me to take your health or safety into account but I'll do it anyway. It's the only way we beat this.

View Quoted Comment Then you do that, not for us, but because it clearly makes you feel like a morally superior person. Just drop the martyrdom facade and own up to the fact that you like stroking your ego that you're better than people who don't live their lives the way you do.

I'm exhausted! The only thing for me is my parents are in the UK, having them here is very important so hoping that can happen for the fall. Most everyone else is in FH and my area. All the excitement and planning started for us June 2019, we got engaged in Oct 2019 and planned for Oct 2020 wedding. We postponed to this October so picking the planning pieces back up now, it's tough to gain momentum!

View Quoted Comment It's not martyrdom, it's just doing the right thing based on the recommended guidelines for where we're at with the pandemic. With the new variants picking up, it's best to be cautious. I don't think I'm better than anyone. I'm just worried about everyone's health and doing what I can. If you feel like me somehow doing what the CDC recommends is a poor reflection on you, that's not really my problem. This isn't about me or any one person, it's about everyone working together to protect everyone and go back to normal life sooner.