October 2021 Brides- how’s everyone holding up?

October 17th in Georgia, here. I do believe that a few people will decline based on what's going on but I don't think a lot will. Most of our guests are vaccinated and we're definitely going forward no matter what. Just trying to stay positive and take it a day at a time.

I've been struggling a lot with it for our Oct. 2 wedding. We sent out invites a couple weeks ago with a notice that we are requiring proof of vaccination to attend (my FH is high risk, and with cases continuing to rise here, we spent many late-nights talking about our options). Surprisingly, we've only received push-back from 1 person, even though most of our extended families are unvaccinated. Everyone else has been very understanding and, if they aren't going to get vaccinated, have politely declined. We made a choice that we felt was best for us and our guests. There is no right answer, unfortunately, so you can only do so much! As of this point, it may just be our immediate families and a handful of local friends...which is just fine with me!

October 16 here and getting nervous. We are in Indiana. We have our second to last meeting with our day of coordinator later this week and we plan on telling her that we would like to move everything outside if the COVID situation is similar to what it is now come October. We would like to just require vaccination or at least a negative COVID test from everyone, but then much of our families may not come. We might take that step if things get worse though.

I am honestly not worried about it very much considering we are having a small wedding anyways. We know that the majority of the important people would do anything to come to the wedding under any circumstances. Even if the venue cancels, my fiance and I would be just as happy to elope and then have a real ceremony later on.