5 Ways to Keeping Your Guests Safe During COVID

Are weddings during a pandemic possible? Yes, they absolutely are! You can have a beautiful ceremony and keep you and your wedding guests safe with the right plan in place. Here are our top tips: 

Have onsite COVID-19 testing for your wedding guests. This is the most convenient way to do rapid tests, if your local health department and wedding venue allow. Sesu Labs &  EventScan is one of the major providers of COVID-19 testing at weddings & live events. You should also ask your wedding planner (if you have one) to see if they can connect you with a certified clinic or other legalized agency that offers official testing for your wedding. 

Alternatively, you can ask all your RSVP’d guests to get a test before coming to the wedding. Send out notices/reminders a few months before the wedding so that appointments can be scheduled in time. This can also save you and your guests money in the long run. Stay in contact with attendees to make sure you know who has been tested or not.

In the case that one or more of your guests are positive for COVID-19, you need a plan in place to escort them off the venue safely and without being in close contact with other guests. If this COVID-positive guest came with a party, you may have to ask them to leave as well. 

For more information about how we handle COVID testing for weddings, please contact us and we’ll assist you any way we can!

Keep your wedding guests up-to-date with wedding expectations and changes. Before the wedding day, make sure your guests know what’s expected and the safety guidelines that need to be followed. You can send out notices with your wedding invitations as well as reminders when your wedding day is near. Create a FAQs document that you can send out to guests, too.

Prepare sanitation stations and regular cleaning. Have hand sanitizers and extra disposable masks on hand for your guests. You can even hand out personalized hand sanitizers or face masks to bring a bit of light-heartedness to the event! Sanitary stations (with signs) placed around the venue will also help make sanitizing more accessible for your guests. 

Check in with your vendors. Ask your vendors what they’re doing to keep their staff, and ultimately your guests, safe while they’re at your wedding. Know what to expect from your vendors so that you can relay the message to your attendees if they have questions. 

Go virtual. One of the most popular ways to have your guests attend your wedding without worry is to have a virtual wedding. You can stream your ceremony online via Zoom or YouTube and have a few people physically there at the venue. Or you can skip out on the guest list entirely and simply have a live stream of your ceremony  - featuring just the two of you and the officiant. You can send out the stream to as many people as you want and schedule a post-wedding celebration later on.

We hope this post helped clear up any questions you have about keeping your wedding guests safe during COVID! 

Check out our wedding planning services or contact us for more information.

In the case that one or more of your guests are positive for COVID-19, you need a plan in place to escort them off the venue safely and without being in close contact with other guests. If this COVID-positive guest came with a party, you may have to ask them to leave as well. 

For more information about how we handle COVID testing for weddings, please contact us and we’ll assist you any way we can!

Keep your wedding guests up-to-date with wedding expectations and changes. Before the wedding day, make sure your guests know what’s expected and the safety guidelines that need to be followed. You can send out notices with your wedding invitations as well as reminders when your wedding day is near. Create a FAQs document that you can send out to guests, too.

Prepare sanitation stations and regular cleaning. Have hand sanitizers and extra disposable masks on hand for your guests. You can even hand out personalized hand sanitizers or face masks to bring a bit of light-heartedness to the event! Sanitary stations (with signs) placed around the venue will also help make sanitizing more accessible for your guests. 

Check in with your vendors. Ask your vendors what they’re doing to keep their staff, and ultimately your guests, safe while they’re at your wedding. Know what to expect from your vendors so that you can relay the message to your attendees if they have questions. 

Go virtual. One of the most popular ways to have your guests attend your wedding without worry is to have a virtual wedding. You can stream your ceremony online via Zoom or YouTube and have a few people physically there at the venue. Or you can skip out on the guest list entirely and simply have a live stream of your ceremony  - featuring just the two of you and the officiant. You can send out the stream to as many people as you want and schedule a post-wedding celebration later on.

We hope this post helped clear up any questions you have about keeping your wedding guests safe during COVID! 

Check out our wedding planning services or contact us for more information.