Covid friendly wedding planning

We had our wedding last month and totally possible!! Backyard and tents work well, could use heaters if you are in the northern part of the country. Ceremony and reception at same place will help simplify your wedding planning. Good luck!! ❤️❤️❤️

We plan on having masks and hand sanitizer for guests to use. An outdoor ceremony/reception is a good idea too if you don't feel comfortable eating inside. Good luck ❤️

Hmmm I would start booking vendors like yesterday. You can do it at someone's house or if someone has access to a clubhouse. I would look for local parks because they may have more openings. I would say tomorrow starting searching and reaching out to:

-Photographers

- Officiant

- Venues

- Hair and make up artists if you want that

A lot of COVID weddings were postponed to this fall and October and November are popular months. Check the vendor tab here and I would also check un thought of venues like bed and breakfasts. Good luck. You got this!

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I don't know if you're looking more for covid advice or quick planning advice, but hopefully this will help...

First, figure out who's going to marry you and when/how to get your marriage license. Covid has complicated this in many places. We got ours on time, but we were on a waiting list for a while.

If you have, or can borrow, an outdoor space large enough for everyone, plan to use it. Look into tent and other rentals right away. My mom handled that for us but it seemed* stressful. Once you know your marriage will be legally binding and you have a place for your guests to sit and not get rained on, you can start working on the more fun things. Make a list of everything you need for it to feel like real wedding, and start there. I highly recommend hiring a photographer, but beyond that I don't think anything else is universally necessary. Here's what we did:
My dress was from BHLDN. I wasn't in a rush, but it was delivered within a few days and I love it, so that's a good option if you want to wear something you don't already own. The groom's tux was from the Black Tux and they also take fairly last minute orders.
For food, we worked with a very helpful caterer who made us heavy appetizers in attractive individual containers for dinner, so no one had to touch anyone else's food. It worked very well. An ice cream truck came for dessert. We didn't have a bartender, but you may want one if you have more than 25ish people. I made a mask for each guest and we bought mini bottles of hand sanitizer for everyone (Bath & Body Works had them even when CVS and Target didn't). We bought a box for each household (people were seated by household, we rented more, smaller tables to accommodate this) and put one mask and one sanitizer per person in them. I tied them with ribbons and calligraphed tags for them so the boxes doubled as place cards. We asked people to wear masks any time they weren't eating, drinking, or sitting at their tables. I didn't think we needed ceremony chairs, but I said it was okay if people wanted to bring their reception chairs over. Our officiant shared that and the mask request with our guests (and told them to turn and keep their phones off) and got them organized so there was an aisle for me to walk down. Two of my relatives recorded music for us so we used a laptop and a Bluetooth speaker to play it. When that music ended, my brother started playing from a Spotify playlist he'd made. We didn't have dancing but we did have lawn games. There were speeches. We had ALL of the flowers. The arch, centerpieces and bathroom flowers, made it feel like a real wedding venue. Having color-coordinated masks made them feel like a choice. The personal flowers, formalwear, elegantly presented food, and lack of smartphone use made it easier to forget all of the nonsense from the outside world.

*You may have an easier time with this than she did. We started planning our miniwedding in May when things were just starting to reopen and the tent was very important to her because she and my dad had a short engagement (in 1984) and the only available tent was a white and yellow striped "circus tent."

Our minimony will be about 30 people. We reserved a ballroom at a hotel, my family is cooking dinner, the ceremony and reception will both be in the same room.


We booked a photographer for a couple of hours and my fiancé’s aunt will be the officiant. We tried to keep the minimony simple as our big wedding is in March 2021

We rented out a retreat on vrbo that holds 64 people and will have everything on site. Guests get to stay onsite all weekend and we will bring catering in Friday for our welcome party and have the wedding Saturday.