COVID Info
What will the COVID considerations be for this event?
As discussed in the invite inserts sent:
We are requiring all guests, over the age of 12, to show proof upon arrival of full vaccination (two weeks after final dose of your vaccine) or a negative PCR test taken within 3 days of the event.
Our venue is requiring masks be worn when guests are not actively eating or drinking.
What does that timeline look like?
This would mean that your final dose of vaccine needs to be administered on or before September 18 and your PCR test would need to be taken September 29-October 1. Please be mindful if doing the second option that it may take 24-72 hours to receive your results, so please plan accordingly.
Will this event be outdoors or indoors?
The current plan is to have the ceremony and cocktail hour in open air outdoor spaces and the reception under an outdoor open side tent. This has always been the plan, pandemic or no. Please note that bathroom facilities are inside of the butterfly house building.
In the event of rain there is a good chance that this event will need to be moved indoors. We will evaluate the circumstances for weather and cases the week of to decide how to proceed and if an indoor rain plan will be used. We understand this could affect people’s ability/comfortability in attending.
How many people are attending?
So there are a lot of formulas under normal circumstances on how many invited guests will RVSP yes to a wedding, unfortunately COVID and the ever changing circumstances complicates that. But for the sake of transparency for all we invited about 150 people from 17 states, but we are currently anticipating 80-120 guests.
Complicating this is that we anticipate a lean attendance. We understand a decent number of people are being extra cautious and will not feel comfortable attending, we totally understand that. We also understand a decent number of people will not be able or willing to get vaccinated/tested/wear masks. We also know that all of these considerations combined with out of state travel will lead many people to choose not to attend. We totally understand that these are big asks.
We want to be clear with our friends and family that we have a lot of grace and will not hold it past you for not attending, regardless of reason
But, I just saw you guys without masks/I know you did X activity in public recently/etc, why are you requiring masks/tests/vaccinations for the wedding?
We just want to make it clear that these COVID considerations are largely due to the nature of the size of this event. As noted above we invited about 150 people from 17 states to come to our event and we decided it was not appropriate or considerate to our guests to move forward with an event with people traveling across the country with absolutely no risk mitigation in place.
Also we would like to clarify once more that our venue is requiring masks, this is outside of our control.
I don’t understand why you would have a wedding if you have to wear masks or consider the pandemic, why don’t you just postpone again?
We understand that many couples are going this route. We just cannot in our hearts postpone again. Our two year engagement has turned into an elopement and three years of wedding planning already. We are quite tired and just simply have other things in our life we want to plan and have to look forward to that would be hindered by continuously postponing this large event. We also want to make it clear that if this wedding is canceled it will be at great financial loss to us, so it is not a decision we would make lightly. Hence why we are really trying to compromise to the best of our ability by having this event now with these considerations.