Vaccine requirement faq wording

"With the health and safety of our dear family and friends, we are requiring our guests to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 to attend our wedding. If - for medical reasons or personal conviction - you are unable to receive a vaccination, we will also accept a negative covid test followed by full quarantine until our wedding.
We will also be operating under NC state regulations regarding masking and social distancing, whatever those regulations be at the time of the event.
These measures are in place to protect our vulnerable guests, who we love dearly and cannot imagine being without."

I like it - it is clear, objectively written and I think fair. ❤️

I think it’s worded fine. But I’m curious how you plan to enforce it?

You might want to add in the detail about the negative test needing to be within 48 hours and needs to be presented upon entry(which is what some states require), unless you’re OK with them presenting a negative test a week before your event..

Also, you might want to add in the info about how you also plan on enforcing this upon your venue And vendors and servers that way people know everyone will be vaccinated... Unless of course you don’t plan on enforcing this for the people that are serving you food… Which sort of invalidates the whole point of everything

Curious- when is your wedding? And how many guests are you anticipating? NC is much different than FL with its Covid mandates. We attended a wedding here a month ago with 100 attendees in which my fiancé was in it and there wasn’t one mask or anything about testing. There was sanitizer on each table and the entire event was pretty much set up outside. Granted the majority in attendance work in healthcare and have been vaccinated. I’m just curious how different states are handling this since FL is more open right now. Best of luck to you!!

Love it! This wording is fantastic

This looks great! This is a very fair and reasonable policy

This is how we worded ours. I think yours is straight to the point. We had the idea to give out color coded wrist bands to showcase if they're vaccinated or not but I'm not entirely sure how we will or should enforce it.

A couple grammatical notes:

At the beginning, change "With the health and safety..." to "For the health and safety..."

At the end, change "...vulnerable guests, who we love..." to "...vulnerable guests, whom we love..."

I know that wasn't the point of this post, and I apologize if I'm overstepping. I'm definitely not trying to be rude; I just want to help everything be as perfect as possible for you! But to the actual point....

I think the message is good, and I like that there's a very clear option for those who can't or don't want to get vaccinated. The questions PPs have asked regarding enforcement are good ones, though. It may be a good idea to add something about guests needing to bring their vaccination cards or negative test results if that's how you plan to enforce it. I'm not sure how it is in NC, but I'm in CA and had to get a covid test for a minor surgery I had about a month ago. Maybe it's just because the test was ordered by the doctor specifically for the procedure, but I was never even contacted about my results. The only confirmation I had that I was negative was the fact that my surgery was allowed to happen. If it's anything like that in NC, your guests will likely need to specifically request written results when they get tested so they can provide you with that proof.

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Most states aren't requiring you to be masked/vaccinated/negative test to go to weddings. This is something people are personally choosing to do

Masks are one thing but what your asking is stupid and disrespectful to your guests rights to pump their bodies with a drug for your wedding. You don't know the science obviously because even if your vaccinated you can still get and give the virus. Testing is not accurate either for what your asking. So your always taking a chance but ok so make sure everyone has the flu shot too because that still exists and deadly to you vulnerable guests. Just saying. Good luck to you.

View Quoted Comment Honestly I had "whom" at first, but grammarly said it sounded too formal so I changed it! I'll change it back and make the other amendment you suggested 😊 Thank you!


I'm not sure how we will enforce it. It seems the options are "to card or not to card", but I'm sure anyone could make a fake paper stating that they tested negative. I fully believe that my guests will either honor my request or refuse to come, which is okay by me.

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LOL. She's not asking guests to get vaccinated in order to attend her wedding. She's giving them fair and reasonable options--they can take a test + quarantine instead if they can't or don't want to get vaccinated. I will probably do the same thing for my wedding. It's a private event and if people don't like it, then they don't have to come. Nobody is forcing anybody else to get vaccinated. How is caring about the health and safety of your guests stupid and disrespectful?

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She does know the science--she's also requiring masks. And guests have a choice to get the vaccine, test, or not come--not forcing anyone to do anything. Vaccine and/or testing combined with masks is probably the safest you can get and still have a wedding. If I invited someone and they refused to get vaccinated or tested, that's 100% someone I wouldn't want at my wedding.

View Quoted Comment I would be fine getting tested but I'm not taking off of work to quarantine before someone's wedding. That is absolutely unreasonable.

View Quoted Comment Ooo, I skimmed over that bit in her write up. I agree, no way to enforce & most people should know by now that that’s the ideal without being told—but it’s not reasonable for most people! Requiring masks is a much better way to go, for lots of reasons.

I think this looks great!

View Quoted Comment Let's be respectful. It is her wedding and she can require what she wants. You don't know if there are guests that she has that are high risk. The last thing I would want is for someone to get sick and be hospitalized or die as a result of my wedding. No need to get personally offended or insult other's decisions for their own weddings.

View Quoted Comment My friend was hospitalized as a result of the vaccine, would you feel bad if someone got vaxxed for your wedding and that happened? Several young friends also had very high fevers and missed work. Elderly and high risk had no side effects and are now protected. Seems like no need to force vax on anyone