We are finally officially doin it (we were committed, but unsure if we were going to have a legal ceremony or not- we finally figured out we wanted to do the legal route and get officially married).
I feel so excited but also overwhelmed. The pandemic obviously has flipped the world upside down.
We live on the east coast but have a good chunk of friends and family out west and south, and in Europe. It really would be sad if we can't have most of people there. So no hurry for us (if we REALLY get impatient we might do a small thing just to formalize it, but there will be a big shindig at some point. Which probably everyone will need at that point). We take being safe quite seriously though. Quarantining before will not be an option for us/many of guests due to in-person work (healthcare, schools), also some others have immune issues/are older. We would strongly prefer to do the event outside (leaning towards a nice historic place we can do it for free basically- have to rent or DIY extra bathrooms, tent if bad weather, seating/tables I believe).
Deciding the actual date of course has complications, covid or not. Especially since good chunk of the guests are in a band I play in that does weddings, guessing we will be busy once things loosen up again. Lot of our events are pushed out another year from 2020 to 2021, to 2022. I would love to think about this fall but realistically it's hard for me to envision this happening until 2022 at least.
How are y'all managing with this? It will be heavily DIY so we don't have to worry as much about contracts and stuff. I was maybe thinking to send out a survey to the further away guests something along the lines of "what will you need to have going on w/covid or with society/travel" etc to feel good about coming.
