My fiancé and I are considering having a drive thru shower. We had long given up on having any shower due to covid and not wanting to hire a venue and an outdoor one at that (in a city that barely has outdoor spaces) along with catering. We feel it would just be too much with all the unexpected covid added expenses for the wedding piling up. But when we heard of our families hopes of us having something it’s been hard to shake from our minds. We had time to come to terms with sacrificing all pre wedding festivities all last year but our family I guess still had hope. So we found out about the drive thru showers and are trying to plan one out. Our current idea (just an idea nothing set in stone) is to set up at my old family home. Decorate the outside set up some tables. Have some family members cook and purchase nice to go trays, get cup cakes and individual cupcake holders and nicely bagged candies. Send invites with the just of what a drive thru shower is. When guests come they can give a gift if they’d like and we’d give them a nice gift bag with a mini champagne bottle, tray of food, cupcake and candy. Then we would have a virtual component at the end when we would invite all guests to join us on zoom to open the presents and give our thanks and let them see our reactions to their generosity.
Our question is, because hybrid weddings and having a virtual aspect is so new due to covid, what is the etiquette for virtual guests? Do they get an invite to this? I know in the traditional sense only those invited to the wedding would receive invites. But do virtual invites count as well? What are the new etiquette rules for virtual guests? It’s so confusing. We don’t want to leave anyone out but we also don’t want guests to be put off receiving a drive thru shower invite but not being able to attend in person though they know the reasons for that is out of our hands.
There’s just so much gray areas now and we want to make the right decisions.
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