Covid and The Future of Weddings

The love and joy that comes with celebrating a wedding will remain resilient long after COVID, as people have learned not to take one second of life for granted. You have been kept astray from your friends and loved ones, and this is your moment to embrace the yearning of missing them so dearly. You’re about to encounter an experience most likely to have never been felt before. Take this moment, wrap it in your hands, and never let go. Show your guests the love they have been missing and together share a moment that will last an eternity. Let the new normal bring you peace and love as you begin the shared path with your forever soulmate.
The love and joy that comes with celebrating a wedding will remain resilient long after COVID, as people have learned not to take one second of life for granted. You have been kept astray from your friends and loved ones, and this is your moment to embrace the yearning of missing them so dearly. You’re about to encounter an experience most likely to have never been felt before. Take this moment, wrap it in your hands, and never let go. Show your guests the love they have been missing and together share a moment that will last an eternity. Let the new normal bring you peace and love as you begin the shared path with your forever soulmate.


Health and Safety:


Wedding Planners Suggesting’s


Wedding Website FAQs Pages
As you start planning your special day, begin to form a general FAQ page on your website that details each safety protocol and measure that you and your vendors will put into place. Doing this will help your guests feel reassured, cared for, and safe.


Virtual Meetings
​As virtual life has become a thing, we suggest virtual venue tours. Also, phone or virtual vendor meetings, home-delivered tastings, online shopping, and bridal fittings at the convenience of your own home. Also, remain open with the possibility of date changes and even rescheduling your wedding. Be sure to have your planner check and recheck all contracts with venues and vendors and their rescheduling protocols. Be open to having your wedding on a date that fits everyone’s schedule, including venues and vendors.


Protocols pertaining to venues and vendors
Venues and vendors may begin to take extra measures such as installing sanitation stations and contactless faucets. You will see added cleaning procedures for set-up, tear-down, and throughout the entire day. Be sure to understand each vendor’s PPE measures. Ask as many questions as possible, so you are ready to embrace your day, and you ensure all concerns have been taken care for you. Will they have masks and gloves? How will they be distributed? Who is responsible for the guest’s PPE? Also remember, a bride wearing white gloves is a timeless fashion and elegant accessory choice.


What to know about catering
Proper etiquette is returning to our foreseeable future. You will see new rules and serving customs. The utmost safety is assured as precautions are a top priority concerning extra staff training, food temperatures double-checked, new sanitizing standards, the way dishes are made and served, and measures never thought of before. People may shift more to plated meals, and single plated hor’s d ‘oeuvres. Remember: plated meals will save you on finances compared to an open buffet and accessible hor’s d ‘oeuvres.


New Layouts (a skill that planners and designers accustom to)
Ceremony and reception layouts are one of our specialties. We love new creative designs such as circles and half-moon ceremony set-ups and receptions with fewer guests that give us more room for innovative décor. Outside weddings are a beauty in themselves. You have endless opportunities with the world around you. You have space that can quickly expand; you can easily change a layout to face away from the sun. And the fresh air you and your guests can breathe freely without the surrounding walls holding in. And, as your side-eye catches your uncle Robert (A fifth cousin removed twice) staring at you from the sidelines, all you got to do is move. As planners, we are continually changing layouts, seating arrangements, and shifting “difficult” guests away from their unlikely sitting mates, with six-foot distances and sitting people with whom they get along with best….no problem.


Greetings have formed their own new Culture
Let’s make the best of this and embrace your individuality. How about the bride curtseying at the groom’s side and the groom is bowing to the bride’s side. Or do you have a unique wave that you and your partner have constructed, now is the time to teach your guests. Let’s be gone with the traditional receiving line and embrace that individuality some more. Have each person in your party show a talent or throw a gesture as they singly walk down the aisle.


Let’s talk about socially distanced dancing
Guests will no longer have to worry about whose dancing with who and omg do you see what I see. Yes, this means close family members will have to dance together and avoid “Karen” from across the dance floor. Welcome to traditional and futurama, combining. Satellite dance floors and DJ’s with a broader music set and multiple DJ’s will emerge as guidelines have asked for that awkward slow dancing to disappear amongst guests and to keep a close family together.


The Guest Experience
As the guest list becomes smaller, the couple can use that extra finance to improve their guest’s experience. Menus can now elevate to a more fine dining level. All your guests can now taste that expensive wine you like, and entertainment can now become performances from artists that can be a once in a lifetime experience. 


Turn your Weddings into a story 
Now that you have had extra time to think let’s make your fairytale come true. Personalize your wedding favors, guests’ experiences, send-off, and everything in between. Take your talent and customize your wedding favors into something that guests will know that you and your partner enjoy and love. If you love baking, make cookies. If DIY is your thing, then make them all something that means the world to them. Everything from getting ready to the guests sending you off can be personalized into your own story for all to remember forever.


Whats Minimony? 
As rescheduling has forced you to change your date, you have most likely come across the dreaded weekday wedding. Look at it this way. The venue and vendors are all cheaper; you are saving money and can now buy that little thing in the store window that has you distracted from life. Having a weekday wedding allows you to expand your wedding celebration to however long your heart desires. Now you don’t only have the COVID excuse; you also have the “Its my wedding excuse”. When’s your wedding date?…oh December 2021. Why are you having dinner with the girls? Cause it’s a wedding get together and because of social distancing and the number of friends I have, I need more than one dinner. Why are you having a bachelor party now?... Because I’m getting married next year. The dates and possibilities are endless. It’s your wedding, do what you want and expand for as long as you want. You can also take advantage of technology and stream your entire wedding. Have guests attend whichever part of your wedding that you want. If you don’t wish to have your cousin at your bridal shower, give her the live stream link and politely mention that you are trying your best to keep your guest count to a minimum.


Registries and Receiving gifts
Online registries are already standard, so why not have your gifts delivered to your home as well. You already love Amazon and hiding them packages from the hubby. Why not get deliveries that are bought by someone else…no hiding of boxes needed. Instead of gift cards with money, have that directly deposited into your account through Venmo, PayPal, or whatever service you use. Why do you have to do all the work on your wedding day and collect the cards and have to go to the bank and cash them or deposit them when a simple click can do it for you. This will also mean that your guests won’t have to fork out money on a card that you’re probably going to throw away eventually. They’ll love you for it.