Is it safe to get married during Corona?
small functions in order to tie the knot. But is it really safe? Let’s find out a normal year, lots of would be getting ready to attend summer weddings right about now steam-ironing new suits and sundresses, ordering gifts for the happy couples, writing toasts, securing vacation days to travel out of town. But as we all well know by now, 2020 is no normal year. The global pandemic and the COVID-19 have effectively ruled out large gatherings and made many people, in social distancing policies that have been put in place to curb the spread of particular elderly.
En mass, weddings have been dramatically or canceled. The gauzy, fluttery dress I bought.February to wear to a friend’s now-postponed May wedding hangs solemnly in my closet, a delicate question mark suspended in the air. The virtually stretch with an anomalous number of free weekends. And there’s a strong possibility
nonexistent wedding season of 2020 promises to be strange: a May-to-October
events, with extended family and friends in attendance won’t be the norm again
that this weirdness will last, that weddings as we know them grand, festive
for a long time.
Social-distancing measures are likely to make big wedding celebrations essentially impossible for the rest of this year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still recommends that Americans for organizations that serve higher-risk populations,” and limits on the number of people who can gather for any sort of party or event.
There’s no way to predict, of course, whether“wedding season” as we know it will even be a possibility by this time next year. Strict disease-prevention measures will likely still be in place in a number of states—some of which will make it difficult for vendors and venues to commit to big weddings. Small, low-key ceremonies might seem especially appealing now because they can be adapted to whatever restrictions might be in place in a year. But even without constraints on their guest list, couples starting to plan a wedding right around now might well find that the venues they want are booked through the end of 2021. This by itself would be enough to push some couples toward a simpler, more scaled-back, easier to-plan wedding day.
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