“Dear Captain Awkward I have a wedding planning etiquette question...”
1. Elope now and have a party when it is safe in a couple years
2. Postpone the whole deal until it is safe in a couple of years
The “how do I manage competing party expectations” advice shop is CLOSED.
1. Elope now and have a party when it is safe in a couple years
2. Postpone the whole deal until it is safe in a couple of years
The “how do I manage competing party expectations” advice shop is CLOSED.
“My parents want this kind of party but I want that kind of party...”
Do you want to potentially kill your family and a bunch of workers and their families with blue napkins or pink ones?
STOP, drop, and slow your roll.
I am truly sorry your dream wedding cannot happen rn.
Do you want to potentially kill your family and a bunch of workers and their families with blue napkins or pink ones?
STOP, drop, and slow your roll.
I am truly sorry your dream wedding cannot happen rn.
It is okay to be really, really sad that it can’t happen the way you foresaw it.
But I am permanently resigning from the pandemic party planning committee.
But I am permanently resigning from the pandemic party planning committee.
If you wrote in with a wedding question recently, yes, this is about you. But it’s about like, 100 of you, so it’s not personal to you.
“Should x or y walk me down the aisle?”
2020-21 answer: Pick the one you are most ok with killing, also, what aisle, THERE IS NO AISLE.
“Should x or y walk me down the aisle?”
2020-21 answer: Pick the one you are most ok with killing, also, what aisle, THERE IS NO AISLE.
“Who should be in my wedding party?
2020-21: Probably your worst enemies!
2020-21: Probably your worst enemies!
It sucks. I AM SORRY. It sucks. We are losing so much this terrible year, proms and bar mitzvahs and all the rituals that tie us together. I am sorry!
But “one wedding and between four and four hundred funerals” is not a good movie, u cannot have the greenlight from me.
But “one wedding and between four and four hundred funerals” is not a good movie, u cannot have the greenlight from me.
The vaccine is coming, the end IS in sight, but it’s not time to put down a nonrefundable deposit for a June wedding, Beloved.
If you’re an assassin using your 2021 wedding as a pretext to take down a bunch of high profile targets, DM me so we can talk movie rights.
Everyone else, I love you, I want you to celebrate your love, and I want everyone you love to be alive to enjoy it.

Everyone else, I love you, I want you to celebrate your love, and I want everyone you love to be alive to enjoy it.



You know what the right thing is, so please do not ask me to enable more of this: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6945a5.htm
If you want to make it happen safely and soon, nice people are doing the homework for you, these are two starting points:
https://offbeatbride.com/how-can-i-get-married-during-this-pandemic/
https://thebudgetsavvybride.com/how-to-plan-a-virtual-wedding/
https://offbeatbride.com/how-can-i-get-married-during-this-pandemic/
https://thebudgetsavvybride.com/how-to-plan-a-virtual-wedding/