Covid Rules at your Wedding

I would recommend communicating it everywhere you can, including the invitations. Not all guests are going to read your wedding website.

Yikes i wouldn’t require that guests be vaccinated

I have on my website the current requirements to enter Puerto Rico and will make sure and communicate them as they change both as we make our way towards January as well as remind people the weeks ahead of time. Granted, the requirements there are testing within 48 hours of arrival or test in the airport before you leave for where you're staying so it's a bit easier. I think whether they are travel requirements or requirements that you are setting yourself as long as you communicate this everywhere you can that you'll be fine

View Quoted Comment I wouldn’t require that guests be vaccinated either. People get Covid either way, the shot doesn’t prevent infection or transmission, so I don’t think it is really a big safety measure to keep track of status. In my opinion, requiring testing would be a better alternative. You could post the requirement on your website, include it in the envelope with your invites, and even communicate it via email or text message to the guests.

We already know that 99% of our guests are vaccinated. You can figure out who is and who isn't by checking their social media... or if you've just spent time with them or talked to them at all over the past year. For the last couple guests, my dad is reaching out to them and letting them know we expect them to get at least one dose if they want to come. (I personally would have been OK with a negative test, but our other guests would freak out if they found out there was an unwanted person at the event.) That couple haven't RSVPed yet but our deadline is soon. I honestly don't know what they'll say.

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We were thinking about requiring both. My fiancé live in an area that at one point required people to have vaccines for entry to restaurants/events and we work at companies that mandated vaccines and wearing masks (though we mostly can work from home) as a requirement for employment. We both have extended families that live in areas that the majority of people have been unmasked for most of the pandemic, and that unnerves us that there are people who could attend that don't care about the well being of others. Some of our close family members are older and we want to protect them.

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Thanks, definitely overcommunicating is key

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Thanks, yes, I didn't mean just vaccinations but testing as well. I think both are important because I want to minimize the risk of an outbreak happening as well as lowering the risk in case of an outbreak.

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Glad that someone else is on the same page as me! Had a couple family friends that we didn't invite because we knew it was a problem, but we have extended family that we have to invite that we pretty sure aren't vaxxed and have not taken the pandemic seriously

Absolutely not. I would never go to a wedding that requires any of my personal medical information. That is between my doctor and myself and is beyond inappropriate to ask for.

All of the weddings I've attended since Covid have required both a negative test and proof of vaccination. As a guest, I have been super grateful for this, and I would not have been comfortable attending if these measures weren't put in place! In most cases, the couple included an additional insert in their invitation suite with the details. We had to email a copy of our vaccine card to the couple 2 weeks in advance as well as a photo of our negative test 48 hours in advance. I think putting the requirements on the details card in the invitation was the best method, so I would recommend this

We are requiring vaccination and strongly recommending a test. We included an insert in our invitations, have it on our website, and spread it through word of mouth. We are not requiring testing of all our guests but are of our wedding party members and their plus ones. We just called them and told them directly. Nobody had a problem they told us about.

Forgot to add. We stated that proof of vaccination would be required as you enter the ceremony. We are planning right now that we won’t actually have anyone check. We’re not collecting pictures of cards. That felt like too much information for us to have record of personally. That’s just my opinion!

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That's what we're considering too. If we are going to check we'll just have the ushers/groomsmen check. If we're stating it before, it would probably/hopefully discourage the unvaccinated to come.

We are requiring vaccination and it’s largely a protective factor for my dad who is immune compromised due to chemo. So it’s written on your website and invitations, and in general everyone knows this. Sadly we are also taking temperatures as well. If people are offended by that no worries they don’t have to come. I’m cool with that. A persons health record is between they and their doctor. But my fathers health concerns is something that I and my extended family are highly invested in and we are not letting anyones reticence about the vaccine get in the way of that.

Most people i've seen put it on their websites or invites directly to let people know they have this type of requirement

I think its rude to require someone to be vaccinated. If they are important to you a negative covid test within 48 hours should be enough for you. Especially if you are requiring your guest to wear masks.

We are asking that everyone be vaccinated, we have something on our website as well as on the details of our invites. I'm immunocompromised, and my mother is a cancer survivor. The majority of our guests we know are already vaccinated, with a few who aren't. We expect them to push back on that, and will be okay with a day of negative test.

This isn't a regular situation, and the science has been proven, a lot, that vaccinations not only help prevent the spread, but reduce the symptoms if you do have a breakthrough case. My fiancé's employee, who is unvaccinated and sits in a car (masked) with my fiancé every single day, came down with Covid a few months ago. The only reason my fiancé and I didn't, is because we are fully vaccinated. Lots of people (and places!) are requiring either vaccinations or negative testing, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

It may mean people chose not to come, but that is their personal choice. Just like it is your personal choice to not have to worry about anyone becoming infected (and having long lasting side effects!) at your wedding.

We're doing so very simply. On our website and invites it states: "We kindly ask that all guests be fully vaccinated against Covid-19."

My daughter's wedding is in a few weeks and she put the info on both her wedding website and invitation. Her requirement was vaccination or proof of -ve Covid test. However, she has a 40% decline rate, most of whom were people who didn't want to do a Covid test. They didn't seem to have any objections up front but when it came time to RSVP, it became pretty clear.

You can kinda figure out who's vaccinated in your guest list and go from there. I would put the information on the wedding website and the invitations so that every guest is aware of the requirements and can make their own decisions.