How best to tell my family that we’re backing out of my sister’s wedding?

Honestly, I would have agreed with you a year+ ago. Now it's like, family members have gotten cancer and passed away. This thing is still a threat but other things are threats, too - ANYTHING can change or take a life.

I'm vaccinated, I mask up, I don't spend any unnecessary time indoors. But going to my best friend's wedding next weekend where 98% of guests will be vaxxed and the remaining 2% will have to take 3 negative rapid tests leading up to it? Continuing with my own wedding in October, where we'll be requiring vaccinations and negative COVID tests too? Yup. We have to be smart, but we can't pause life indefinitely, and we can't continue to penalize people who have followed all the rules.

Also, the idea that someone with a wedding scheduled for September 2021 should have immediately rescheduled back in March 2020 out of an abundance of caution does not seem at all realistic.

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