The color is to die for. I’m not a fan of beading for one reason: weight.
Yes, some of the dresses I tried on were soooo heavy.
Another dress I tried on and LOVED is this one. I’ve decided it’s casual for my needs, but I totally would buy it for a beach wedding. The gold in it makes it a little dressier.
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That is a very romantic gown and yes, it could look perfect for a beach type wedding.
I wore this dress (in a now-discontinued blue) to D1’s wedding. I’d love to wear it again, but I am getting a big NO from D2.
I know the size, it’s comfortable, I felt great wearing it, and it photographed well.
Maybe I’ll buy it in another color?
It may very well be that DD1 - who added local friends to the wedding as she knew relatives/friends from distance could not come, may very well have had ‘single’ person invites. The wedding party all had +1. Wedding size was limited by the reception place size limit. I believe she had a bit over what the room was supposed to be able to handle, but there was a balcony with some high tables set up and some chairs around the one side of the room where all the young folks hung out.
My DIL’s mother is wearing this dress in gold. She loves it. Can’t wait to see her in it!
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OK, two months out from the second/real wedding and getting excited. I’ll firm things up this week for the “rehearsal dinner,” though there is no rehearsal or dinner. We are having heavy hors d’oeuvres and drinks for happy hour at a brewery. Some people I didn’t expect to come are making the trip so I’m really happy about that.
Also, the kids put on the invite that only vaxxed people can come (but nicer), and they are doing rapid testing at the door. lol Is anyone else doing/have done that? The bride is so worried one of the grandmas will catch Covid and die.
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We are slowly getting closer. My son’s gf was accepted to PA school which was the last main hurdle to them getting engaged. They have been dating for 4 years.
He is going on a study abroad mini session the beginning of the summer to Belgium with his vet school. He is going to fly his gf out to meet him and get engaged while they are there! The goal was to be engaged before she goes away for 28 mos to school. Luckily it is only about 3 hours away so they can still see each other when their school schedules allow.
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So everyone is being asked to take a rapid test at the door?
No, I’ve never heard of that. Was that part also on the invitation?
What happens if someone tests positive at the door? Do you refuse entry to someone who has traveled hours to get there? Do you let them retest? The instant test are not as accurate as the 2-3 day ones. This week on the view 2 of the hosts tested positive and at least one tested negative for the next 2-3 tests (same day) she took.
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These are some of the same questions I have.
My GF’s daughters invitation included a card stating one needed to show test results taken within 72 hours. The results are to be sent to the mom just prior to the wedding.
Friends put that there would be folks in attendance who will not be vaccinated. This is on their save the date.
My niece is getting married January 15th. Given that my brother’s family attends a church where a significant number of members aren’t vaccinated, I was pleased to find this statement on the wedding website.
"Fully vaccinated guests will not be required to wear masks, but masks for all will be strongly encouraged. Please, help us celebrate our new marriage without putting those that we love most at risk of contracting this life-altering virus. "
I am fully vaccinated, but will wear a mask unless our area’s numbers have had a radical decline (my state is one of worst ones currently). I think it would have been easier to ask everyone not in the wedding party to mask up, but not my circus…
We didn’t put it on our invites because of timing. D got married just over week ago and we did lose people because of surge (that previously planned on coming). D put on their website that our church was back to asking everyone to mask, although wedding party didn’t have to at front. We have a large church and easy for our number to spread out. Until late July our church asked unvaccinated people to mask only, but by the time it got close to wedding we were back to fully masked when inside.
Recent invite from family friends included statement to basically not come if not vaccinated. Other D was in wedding a couple of weeks ago that said same.
If I was doing it over again I would collect emails for all those invited to be able to send out changes. Young people seems to check the wedding websites for information, but some, like my brother, never went to it again after booking hotels. We sent out emails to as many people as we could to let them know and had masks available for guest.
Everything was beautiful if smaller and D was thrilled. I am more thrilled that haven’t heard of anyone getting sick. While we did not ask that everyone vaccinated, I am pretty sure it was highly vaccinated group.
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OK, I looked again at the invite, and it doesn’t say anything about testing. That was something the bridge’s mom told me, more as a comment about a whole cottage industry having popped up around this weddings and Covid. Maybe they are testing and maybe not …
But let’s say they did. Yeah, if I tested positive then I would leave, money spent or not.
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Went to one wedding a couple of weeks ago. For this one, the couple sent out email a few weeks before the wedding (coinciding with the surge in Covid) telling people that they required everyone to be vaccinated. If there were kids or folks who couldn’t get vaccinated, they asked that these folks get tested before the wedding. Event was outdoors - lots of folks and kids, haven’t heard of anyone falling sick after the event.
Another wedding in a couple of weeks. Again, couple updated their website and sent out email requiring folks to be vaccinated. I talked to the couple recently and they mentioned that approx 20 people have dropped out in the last couple of weeks. Unfortunate, but some of them have health concerns, some have young kids and it is probably for the best.
We are flying out for this wedding - keeping my fingers crossed!
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D1 recently went to a wedding where everyone was required to be tested before the wedding. They hired a medical personnel to test everyone. Yes, if you were tested positive you couldn’t attend. This was a destination wedding in Europe.
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No one perfect answer as to how to deal with the threat of covid at weddings. At my D’s recent wedding we only allowed vaccinated guests and had everyone upload their vaccination card before the wedding. I also made sure that all vendors (ex photo, makeup, band servers) were vaccinated (I did have to replace the hair and makeup team for this reason). Even with those precautions I breathed a sign of relief when 2 weeks passed and nobody got sick.
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Did anyone ‘fail’?