To mask or not to mask. 🤔

View Quoted Comment Exactly! It’s been a rollercoaster! Sending you best wishes for a beautiful day. 💕🍾

View Quoted Comment Sending love on your day as well. 🥰

FH and I will not be wearing masks nor will the bridal party (it's just my sister and his brother), but we are encouraging our guests to take whatever precautions to make themselves comfortable and just ask if they are included in any of our professional pictures to remove it briefly for those.

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SO EASY for you to judge when you had your wedding right before all hell broke loose. You didn't have to wear a mask, not worry about hugging someone or having big group photos, but that's ok. SMH. I'm so sick of the judging and the shaming from people who've never had to deal with being a covid bride. You didn't have to see a sea of masks walking down the aisle, you most likely danced with everyone you wanted to, had your beautiful cake displayed, or at least the opportunity to do so. Maybe even felt like the boatloads of money you or your family spent was worth it. How was your honeymoon? Was it nice? Did you get to travel somewhere exotic and fun? Again, even if you didn't do most of these things - you had the option for you because it wasn't BANNED.

WE CANNOT DO ANY OF THESE THINGS.

You don't know all the reasons why each person on this forum is making a decision to proceed or postpone. Sometimes venues aren't cooperating; there are many people with family members who may not be around next year regardless of the pandemic.

@Kate - I'm really sorry you had gotten sick with this horrible disease, but I think it's awesome that you still place value on celebration and togetherness despite everything you've been through. I think some people use this pandemic as an excuse to make themselves feel superior by being "safe." I'm as "safe" as I can be in everyday life but it doesn't mean this standard of living is acceptable to me. It's beyond disturbing. I'm so over it. You do you and make the best out of the situation you can, within the standard of safety defined by whatever state or local guidelines have.

I'm sorry you're so angry.


Your presumption about my behavior in your shoes is incorrectly surmised. Your presumption regarding a lack of empathy is also incorrect.
If you're going to be a part of or hold a mass gathering, wear a mask. That isn't presumption.
Cheers!

View Quoted Comment Ma’am. . Like she said , you didn’t have to go through this. MY INITIAL POST WAS MEANT FOR BRIDES THAT ARE PLANNING THEIR WEDDING DURING THIS PANDEMIC. I would say I appreciate your opinion but I don’t. 🙃

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Thank you!

View Quoted Comment Thank you for this! We had our wedding on 8/14 and it was as lovely as it could be given the circumstances. We did not wear masks, but many people did. We hugged those who asked if it was okay to hug us. It was refreshing that quite a few people did! I feel that without togetherness, there is really no quality of life, so we made the best of it and I have no regrets! So far we have not had anyone fall ill, with just a few days left of the 14 day period afterwards, and I am hopeful it will stay that way and that all of the extra precautions taken were worth the time and effort to put in place. I am wishing all of my fellow Covid brides amazing weddings!! Enjoy every moment, because it really does go as fast as everyone says it does. 💕

This post helped me a lot, our wedding was originally in July but we had to postpone to December. I was thinking the same thing, we're requiring all guests to wear masks but the bride and grooms party and the groom and I won't be wearing masks. We're also requiring the bride and grooms party to all get tested for COVID before coming just as a safety parameter since we are all coming from different places and will be around each other a lot the night before and day of the wedding just to keep everyone safe just in case. Thanks for this post and good luck and blessings to all of you COVID brides struggling, WE GOT THIS, LETS GET HITCHED