Weddings with 6-feet social distancing

This would be possible to do at a wedding, but will require that any venue expand their outdoor dining areas and/or keep the numbers well under their typical minimum. For example, a venue that typically seats 200 people may only be able to accomodate 60-100 people with these restrictions in place. Additionally, I'm pretty sure businesses are required to make that distancing possible and enforce it when they can, but I don't think they can be held accountable for the individual actions decided upon by patrons. So for example, they will need to seat households six feet apart but it's not their job to make sure people from households don't hug.

I think it really depends on your venue. You'll have to see what they say and how they can accommodate these new laws. It looks like your wedding is still a little ways off and think you might be fine by the time September rolls around.

But yes, I do think it will be enforced, because a company / venue not enforcing it does not want to be the one caught and then shut down because of it.

This seems possible too if the space was wide enough to accommodate it.

Before we decided to postpone our wedding for July 2020, I talked with the wedding planner about how we would do this. It seems like the wedding industry is interpreting "weddings with social distancing" to include spacing out ceremony chairs or marking spots on pews that are spaced out. It's lowering the number of people at each table at dinner and serving plated dinners instead of buffets. How you would social distance on the dance floor, for a receiving line, or refrain from hugging every guest in attendance I do not know, but to my understanding venues are taking some steps to mitigate interactions in order to give lip service to the new requirements.

I think they'll be enforcing it as much as they can - by putting chairs further apart, marking spots for people to sit in benches/pews, and moving dance floors outside. But I don't expect them to stop you from hugging. It seems like there will be small changes that will be noticeable, but not ruin the day, if that makes sense.

I agree with the posts on here. Your venue can only do so much to enforce this rule. I would discuss all the safety precautions that they will be doing and relay this to your guests so they know. But I think by September you might be okay.

Honestly, if you have a small group of people, your guests might just forget about the 6ft rule, and enjoy their day. Depends on who your guests are and their views on this virus. Or they may not want to get too close to other households, and they might just police themselves, and wear a mask. Just depends on your crowd.

They don't want to get sued by people who get sick so they must follow them. If not they canbe held responsible. I think the intent is to male people feel better not to guarantee groups of 100. Businesses are not protected from lawsuits in all this.

This is why I postponed my July 2020 indoors wedding. We had a guest list of maybe 90-100 people, so not huge. I wasn't sure what a socially distanced wedding would look like or even how many people I could invite. I'm imagining as some weddings go on in the next several months we will see more how this works. I just wasn't comfortable with the uncertainty and safety issues to go on with the wedding this July.

I think venues will do the best that they can but..... It;s totally up to the patron to respect the law as well.

Venues can space out chairs but your guest can put them back together. Dancing social distancing probably wont happen at all. It's crazy to even think about it.