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Just Said Yes October 2022

How to ask guests to be tested??

Angelica, on July 6, 2022 at 9:05 AM Posted in Planning 5 7
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Hi everyone,
My wedding is coming up in October and I need to send out invites soon. However I wanted to include a card to ask our guests to take a rapid COVID test the day of the wedding if they plan on attending.
I don’t know how to word this without offending anyone. I want to make sure everyone is safe and if they would like to join in our special day, they can safely do so. I never thought getting married we would still be here, asking for tests and everything. But I don’t want to postpone my wedding. I found the man of my dreams and want to start our lives together as husband and wife. Does anyone have any advice on how I could word the card in our invitations and website to ask our guests to be tested?

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Latest activity by Bailey, on July 25, 2022 at 11:52 AM
  • Imani
    Master July 2022
    Imani ·
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    I was literally just having this conversation yesterday. You can add it to the website but also include a card when you send the invitations. Maybe something along the lines of ‘Due to the ongoing pandemic, we are asking all guest to take a rapid test 24 hours prior to the wedding. If anyway is feeling ill, we recommend staying home as the safety of everyone is our main priority’ or something along those lines.
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  • Imani
    Master July 2022
    Imani ·
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    Oops if anyone *
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  • Hanna
    VIP June 2019
    Hanna ·
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    This was the wording for the most recent wedding I attended: "We respectfully require that guests take a rapid Covid test within 48 hours prior to the wedding. Please email a photo of your Covid test result to XXXXX within 24 hours in advance of the wedding."

    I wouldn't worry about offending anyone. This is the new normal now and we're all used to it. If anything, it's fantastic that you're taking the extra step to help keep your guests safe!

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  • Orianna
    Devoted December 2022
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    We're asking everyone to be vaccinated on our invites and website ("we kindly ask that all guests are fully vaccinated against Covid-19") and we know the (very small) handful of individuals who are not vaccinated - we will be requiring them to take rapid tests that morning. But we're asking them individually to do so because it is so few people. We're also asking all guests, regardless of vaccination status, that have to travel via airplane to take a test as well.

    We're toying with the idea of having everyone test before entering our venue (and supplying the tests ourselves) but logistically (and financially) we haven't quite figured that out.

    We're putting the above verbiage on the details card of our invitation and it is already on the front page of our website. Of the 100 people we're inviting there's about 7 who aren't vaccinated, and we plan on just talking to them individually. At this point, I think people are used to Covid protocols and asking everyone to test to be safe isn't being rude or pushy at all! In fact - I might steal your idea and just ask everyone to test that morning regardless!!

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    Michelle ·
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    I like Hannah's verbage. If you are in the US, households can order free tests through the postal service. It takes under 2 months to receive, and you can order up to 3x (so far): https://special.usps.com/testkits. Perhaps you can add the link to your wedding website so your guests can plan.

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    Dedicated June 2022
    beee ·
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    If you are doing rapid tests I would recommend they do them day of as there will be no delay in receiving results.
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  • Bailey
    Expert October 2023
    Bailey ·
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    Anyone who is bothered by it, won't go! As long as that's something you're okay with, any of the wording above sounds great! I wouldn't even waste the energy being worried about offending, you can't help the way people feel about COVID/testing/etc

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