vaccines & wedding

Yay!!!! So happy for you! Hopefully everyone this year will be luckier than last year

Yay!! We are hooding our October wedding in Las Vegas will be as close to normal as possible, it’s looking that way at least!

How large is your wedding? Its impressive that so many on your guest list are already vaccinated. We would love to be able to have the event we wanted but I think June 12 (our current "redo" wedding date) looks to be pushing the timeline for a mask free celebration with hugs and dancing, even though we have a small (60-80 person) guest list.

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We have around 130-150 coming. We don't mind people wearing masks & most of our guests aren't afraid of covid now that they are vaccinated so I think our wedding will be relatively normal. Fauci said masks will be worn in 2022, so we just decided to make the most of what we are dealing with! 😂

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Hopefully by summer 2022 you won't have to wear masks for your wedding! We just personally didn't want to move our date when most of our guests are comfortable coming ❤️

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Nice!

We eloped on our original date (May 30, 2020) and hoped to have a wedding celebration this year, but hugs, dancing, and no masks are important to us. Since we are already married, we would rather wait and push back the date again instead of compromise what we want or put our guests at risk. Because our wedding is smaller and outdoors (ceremony is completely outdoors, dinner would be in a barn with huge doors on all sides that allow similar airflow to a tent, and dancing is outside on a roofed patio) we hope that will work in our favor. June still seems unlikely, but all of our vendors have Sept 11 available if we want to consider pushing back to then. However our state has not updated "wedding guidance" since June 2020 so its difficult to know what will be allowed later this spring or this year.

We are in our mid-30s and wanted to try for a baby once we were married, but delayed because of Covid and having to move our celebration. We really just don't want to have to move the date again or have it further interfere with our family planning. I can sort of get excited about June or September 2021 but would prefer not to have this year be a complete repeat of the past year and have to move our date out to 2022, and then possibly again.

Very nice. We have about 70% of people vaccinated as well and i live in Texas so the whole state is 100% open. Of course if anyone still wants to wear a mask... they are welcome too.

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Yay!!!! Thats awesome news!!

That’s wonderful news! Our guest list has always been around 100 but we were prepared to make the cuts of necessary. Thankfully our venue’s original max capacity was 225 but they cut it back to 175 to be in compliance. We’re still under their max so we’re good to go! 17 more days!

I feel like something has changed in the last week or so and I am feeling more hopeful for my May 2021 wedding. Vaccines are opening way up in WI and I'm feeling encouraged that most if not all of our guests will have been vaccinated by our date. We know there will still be restrictions (our city is more tight than surrounding areas) but I am not feeling more comfortable with the wedding whereas at the beginning of the year I was really wondering if we had made a mistake not postponing again.

View Quoted Comment Hi Kari. I’m in the same boat as you and really struggling. We postponed a year original date was September 2020... now we are planning to downsize significantly- no masks and dancing and hugs are important to us. We are considering asking that everyone be vaccinated but it feels hard to navigate. We are anxious to start a family and don’t want to wait any longer(it’s been soooo long already) anyway just wanted to say I’m right there with you and if you figure anything out let me know! 🥰

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Thank you for your support!

Our wedding was small to begin with (60-80 people, all adults, and also outdoors) and I feel like that has been such a blessing. Our governor just said vaccines will be available for all adults in the coming weeks. I've been talking with a lot of my friends about vaccinations anyway, so I pretty much know who has gotten their shots already and who is eagerly waiting to sign up when they become eligible. Most of our guests have similar values and mindset to us, and really want to return to normal in a safe way, so vaccines are just a part of our regular conversations, not a taboo or overly personal topic.

Based on conversations I've had with our guests, I've figured about 35% of our guest list has already gotten at least their first shot. I may very well be able to track about 80-90% of our guests vaccination status without ever making it about our wedding, just from ordinary conversations we are already having. There are likely a handful of my husband's invitees that I don't chat with and don't know well enough to gauge, but knowing that most of our guests support vaccines and will already be vaccinated before invites even go out makes it a lot easier to make that an expectation for everyone, so I'm leaning more and more towards requesting that guests be vaccinated. Most of them will be happy to see us set clear expectations that are centered around safety. Additionally, CDC guidelines currently support vaccinated individuals gathering in groups without needing to mask or distance, but that changes as soon as more than 1-2 unvaccinated people are thrown into the mix.

In the end, its our event, our celebration, and we are hosting. We should be able to enjoy ourselves and feel safe doing so, and we have a responsibility towards our guests to provide an environment in which they are not put at unnecessary risk. Anyone who disagrees with our stance doesn't need to come to our wedding. If they respectfully decline, we can celebrate with them privately later. If they are offended and make a big deal of it, I'm also not worried, because if asking someone to get vaccinated to attend our wedding is going to be enough to ruin our friendship, then chances are the relationship wasn't all that strong anyway.

View Quoted Comment I think it's great that the vaccine is available, but as a guest I would be wildly offended if a vaccine was required to attend a wedding and it would affect my relationship with the couple.


If you need everyone to be vaccinated to feel safe as the host, this isn't the time for you to host a large event. It's just not an appropriate ask of guests. Masks and tests are an appropriate ask that can help everyone feel safer.

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Where did I ever say vaccines were required? Your entire message is so weird. If people feel comfortable coming without a vaccine, awesome! I probably won't have mine by the time of our wedding. Yikes. You seem super negative.

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I'm asking my guests to either get the vaccine or get a test before, as well. If they're offended, they don't have to come. It isn't required but I'm still going to kindly ask on our website. We're going to still have masks, a full dance floor, and color coordinated wrist bands to show who is comfortable with hugs or not but I don't believe you're asking anything offensive or outrageous. Hopefully this year will be better than last year.

View Quoted Comment "We are considering asking that everyone be vaccinated"

View Quoted Comment Was replying to another comment, not you...

View Quoted Comment Having already postponed my wedding once and now cutting my guest list down by 100 people I don’t appreciate you telling me not to host a wedding because some people might not be comfortable getting vaccinated. It is MY wedding after all. shouldn’t my and my fiancés comfort matter the most? It’s my day! Anyway - I’ll do me, but don’t bring that negativity here, I’m just trying to feel safe and joyful about my wedding again.

View Quoted Comment 💯 1-2 unvaccinated people changes everything! I feel like I have more concern for all the people who will feel reassured knowing all the other guests are vaccinated. Anyway - you’re right, it’s your day and you want to be comfortable and safe. Best of luck!

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People are so weird about other people's weddings... it makes me happy i'm not a bridezilla like that! 😂 Enjoy your wedding girl! If you want people vaccinated to make people feel safe, you do YOU! You're the one paying for it, why should it matter to some internet people?

If it makes you feel better, I would not be offended having to be vaccinated for a wedding even though i'm not asking people to be vaccinated at mine. Also, I would totally take a covid test to show I was negative for a wedding also