How would you feel about vaccinations being required for wedding attendance?

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Hi:

Believe it or not,: I still WON'T take it (for personal reasons, religion has nothing to do)

.As another poster said: "I do not think the vaccine will ever be “mandatory”—maybe for certain things in certain places, but not for everyone everywhere". I'm 100% sure it will never be a requirement in malls/stores,medical facilities/hospitals as a patient, banks, city/state/federal services offices and buildings.A negative test could be required but the vaccine? I don't think so.

Gyms, stadiums, Arenas? I DON'T CARE because I don't go there, covid or not. I can't get on a plane, a train or ride the public transit? It's not a big deal, I can live without them. I can't attend a wedding or go to a restaurant or a movie theater ? I'll stay at home. Period.

100% nothing wrong with it! Your family's safety is more important than not offending people. Anyone who doesn't agree with the requirement doesn't have to come.

Hate to say it but I wouldn’t attend . I understand the your reasons . I work in the health field and I too have elderly guest coming to my wedding but I would never mandate anyone to do anything nor would I attend if it was . Congrats ! Good luck

I am trying to figure this out too. Ugh. I feel like we cant make people get the vaccine bc like you all said some people are against it im sure. So we were thinking if they dont have it to get tested the week of the wedding. If its negative thats all good but positive, its not a good idea to come. I just don’t know how yo word this?! But if it seems like requiring it isnt realy weird? I guess it depends on what we feel is best? I know most of our families have gotten it. just want it to be safe for everyone

I personally wouldn't be offended because I intended to get a vaccine (and did - woot woot!) regardless. FH and I actually postponed our wedding by 4ish months (April to September) so our guests, especially our older guests, could have a greater opportunity to get vaccinated in time. From my research, as long as your older guests are vaccinated, then they should be fine around non-vaccinated people!

I personally think it’s really bad etiquette to force someone to disclose their private health information. Can you simply make sure that anyone high risk is vaccinated so they’re protected? As in, the people you mentioned who are attending

For me I don't plan on getting vaccinated for covid ever, so if it was q requirement I wouldn't come. I would get a negative covid test result though to show you!

I probably would never talk to you again. But that’s just me. And no I’m not an anti-VAXer per se’. But I am a female who plans on trying to conceive within a year and I certainly won’t jeopardize that just to attend your wedding. The vaccine has not been tested yet on pregnant women, or people TTC. There’s a lot of women that might get very offended by this, especially if they already have issues with TTC. Initially, Per CDC, the vaccine was not okayed for people with immune compromised conditions, or pregnant women, or people TTC. There’s such a little information on it. You can absolutely do this… But just be prepared for the backlash that some of your guests may give you. It could even potentially be relationship ending moves. There could be dozens and dozens of reasons why someone doesn’t want to/or can’t get the vaccine.... what if one of your friends gets pregnant. You won’t want them at your wedding anymore because they can’t get a vaccine because they’re pregnant and the CDC advises against it?? Good luck.

View Quoted Comment I hear you, But as long as the people that she is worried about are vaccinated… Then shouldn’t that be all she should care about? I just don’t understand why it’s important for her that her 20 something-year-old healthy friend Who may potentially want to try to start having kids or may even be pregnant gets vaccinated?

Both FH and I have been fully vaccinated. HOWEVER, if I selected not to get vaccinated and we were invited to your wedding with that “requirement”, we’d just decline. The only personal information I’ll ever present to enter a wedding is the invitation.

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View Quoted Comment This, I understand it's for safety reasons but I think it's out of hand, it's simple if you feel sick dont come, there will be guest who have gotten vaccinated or who want to wear mask. But like to go places and show your medical history just to go to events or a store is crazy. I'd say to OP if you need to do this just make your wedding guest list smaller. I personally think it's an invasion of privacy because anyone can make a vaccine card just to show, but are you gonna check the data base, I think not. Just pray trust God have sanitizer offer mask and keep it pushing.

Ultimately, it is your decision, no matter what anyone says. If you want the requirement to feel safer then by all means have the requirement. I’m sure some will decline because they aren’t vaccinated. But if your intention is to only have those vaccinated there then that’s good and helping get what you want. There isn’t anything wrong with making a request to your guests.

I think you should let you guests decide what’s best for their own health in order to attend. If you have people concerned about getting sick, can they get the vaccine? If I was super concerned it seems like that’s what I’d do unless it was against all that I believed in. It would be unfair to force people to get one if they didn’t feel right about it and then not get to celebrate you.


But I think this is going to be far past us by then and you don’t have to worry about it.

I’m not sure I ‘d mandate’ this. It just sounds terrible.☹️

My first thought if I received your invitation is if you thought a vaccine was needed to keep everyone safe, why would you be hosting a wedding/reception to begin with? Surely then the safest practice would be to not host an event in the first place.
Would you consider eloping or postponing your wedding?

There have been other threads about this. I am a hard no on requiring guests to be vaccinated to attend and it would end my relationship with the couple. If my doctor said not to get the vaccine right now (which she did), who are you to tell me that I need to get it?

View Quoted Comment I agree with this. You can ask guests to do certain things, but there is only so much you can out on them. If you feel unsafe and cant feel safe without requiring vaccines, the correct move is to elope or have a tiny wedding

I’m fully vaccinated. I will be happy seeing you make that as a requirement if I were your guest. You can word it something like” I postponed the wedding because I wanted to make sure that everyone would be safe. I truly appreciate if you can get vaccinated before the wedding.”

As a guest, I would 100% support this. People who don't agree don't have to come. Your wedding is a private event and you have the right to mandate Covid vaccines if that's what you want to do. We haven't made a decision yet, but we're actually considering doing the same for our wedding. We don't have any anti-vaxxers on our guest list (as far as we know) so it should be a non-issue.