Mask Wearing

Our wedding isn't until Jan. 2021, so we're not expecting to enforce mask wearing. If nothing improves by then, then we will have them provided for those that want one.

We went to a wedding last November, and they had masks available in case you forgot one. It wasn't enforced though, it was basically a choice. Some people wore them during the ceremony then took them off afterwards, others wore them the entire time except to eat&drink, and others didn't wear a mask at all. No one in attendance contracted covid either, and there were about 130 guests.

View Quoted Comment That's what we plan on doing for our wedding in August. We are only having 50 people in the backyard. We will provide masks and put in with the invitation that masks are required. But I'm not to spend my wedding yelling at adults all night about wearing a mask. It's only family plus I see it as they are all adults and can make that decision themselves about what they feel comfortable doing.

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Totally understand! We're having a June wedding. The ceremony will be outside and the reception will be indoors. I went to a September wedding with no issues, but a cousin just got married last month. Out of 30 guests, 27 tested positive after the event. Kinda spooked me!

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Yeah I think your plan is just fine! All you can really do is provide masks, hand sanitizer, and let them know that they're required.

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Totally understand! We're having a June wedding. The ceremony will be outside and the reception will be indoors. I went to a September wedding with no mask "rules," with no issues, but a cousin just got married last month. Out of 30 guests, 27 tested positive after the event. Kinda spooked me!

I think I'm going to have some signage and make it "necessary" on the dance floor. I originally wasn't very worried, but now I'm started to panic a little, haha.

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That's A LOT of people to contract it at once. It sounds like someone there had it, or came in contact with someone that had it prior to the wedding and decided to come anyways. There's always risks with gatherings considering how everything's going right now. I know there are forums on here where the couple is requesting guests to have a negative test result. That can be a little drastic of a measure, but if it gives you and your guests peace of mind, it may be worth it.

View Quoted Comment Exactly, we are doing everything we can to make it safe. Family only, six feet apart, members of house holds at their own table, handsanitzer, and sanitizer for the table.

View Quoted Comment Our whole wedding is outdoors.

Hi Chelsea! We married in August 2020. At the time, regulations in PA were mask wearing was optional outdoors (250 allowed) and mandatory indoors (limit 25 indoors at a time). We had everything outdoors so the only enforcing was when someone went indoors to use the restroom, drop a card in the box, etc. Our families sit on the cautious side, so no enforcing was needed. Our venue told us we had a very compliant and polite guests, so no friction occurred.
We communicated a lot with our guests ahead of the wedding via Details card, website and phone calls that guests are required to wear masks indoors. We also let them know we would not be offended if they wear masks the entire time whatever their comfort level.Some guests wore masks during ceremony, others worse during cocktail hour and removed them at their seat. Here are a few photos to get an idea of people in the background:

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I don't think I'll go that far!

We're inviting 140, but I'm hoping many will choose the Zoom ceremony option. I'm just looking to see if anyone had a mask plan that I could borrow, haha.

Our wedding is in June as well and we're going to ask for announcements to be made during the ceremony and reception to wear masks and we'll have masks and hand sanitizer at each seat, but it'll be hard to enforce. My family is pretty paranoid about covid, so they'll wear masks as much as possible, but I can't say the same for our friends. As Katie said, I surely won't be constantly asking people to wear a mask. For our outdoor ceremony, I think people will wear them while sitting close to each other. But the cocktail hour and the reception are a lot harder because people always have drinks in their hand and they're not going to wear a mask and keep pulling it down to take a sip. The only solution to enforce this may be only allowing guests to drink at their seat...which sucks haha

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Thank you so much for this! I think I'm going to send out a card with "safety precautions" before the wedding. Our ceremony and cocktail hour will be outside, but the reception will be indoors. Apparently in NC, religious ceremonies like funerals and weddings, are exceptions to the indoor "10 people" rule. I know people make their own decision to come. Nonetheless, still worries me a little.

These pictures are GORGEOUS!

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Yeah we wouldn't go that far either haha!!

Ours is in April and it's required in the church but not required at the reception. The church has stated it's policy but they "aren't the police" so we will see how that goes.


There are no restrictions on dancing or anything like that so I'm hoping it won't be an issue.

We got married in Nov in TN. And although masks are mandatory in our city, our venue had a sign up saying guests "Are required to wear masks during the duration of the event" but none of our guests did. Our venue never checked on us, and made no effort to make sure we were utilizing masks. I did have them available and hand sanitizer available, but our ceremony/reception was indoor/outdoor with a max of 300 guests allowed, and we had 60 show up. So there was lots of social distancing.

View Quoted Comment Thank you very much! 🥰 For what it’s worth, guests wearing masks didn’t spoil our joy in the least ❤️ I too was really worried about covid for our wedding, so you’re smart to be putting thought into it. May be worth asking what type of air system your venue has and if they are willing to keep exit doors open for additional airflow. This could ease your concerns about the reception. Here is a photo of our Details insert as a sample (this is before we moved ceremony outdoors):

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Thank you so much for this!!! Lovely advice.

The wedding is at a Botanical garden. If our numbers are very low, we'll likely move the reception to the patio. The only problem is we can't have a dancefloor on the patio... and we can't have dancing without a dance floor. Sticky situation there.

However, the wall along the patio has three/four sets of french doors, so we'll be able to open those and let lots of fresh air in! I hadn't thought about that, but you just gave me the idea!

We had 17 guests, all outside and wore masks at all times unless actively eating/drinking.
We walked down the aisle with our parents and all wore masks.
We had our bridal party sit down and just MOH/BM stand up 6ft away from us, and officiant was also 6ft away from us so we took our masks off during the ceremony and when we walked back down the aisle just the two of us.We took pictures with our guests with masks on, unless we could social distance and then took our masks off.We told all our guests beforehand that masks were required, bought masks for our wedding party in our colors and brought extra masks for the rest of the guests if needed (everyone brought their own though). Since we wore our masks the whole time, everyone followed. We had 0 issues with compliance.

My BFF had her wedding last September in Arizona and the only people that wore a mask were the ones from California haha. There were roughly 80-90 people and legit no social distancing or mask wearing

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That's sorta my fear!

While I'd love to pretend that things are normal, I can't help but feel like I'd be guilty if someone were to contract COVID. Not sure if you saw the above comments, but FH cousin got married and out of 30 guests, 27 tested positive. I'd feel horrible!