This story was originally published on March 5, 2021, and last updated on February 2, 2022.
There are two main groups of people that a couple talks to when planning a wedding: their wedding guests and their wedding vendors.
Read this story if you want language for how to communicate with your GUESTS.
Read the story below if you want language for how to have similar conversations with your VENDORS. These conversations may seem like too much to take on but please remember: Your wedding vendors have families, too.
The below will be a lot easier if you and your partner have first created a COVID safety policy for your wedding. Here’s a template. The idea is that you create the COVID safety policy and then figure out how to share it with people using the templates below to help.
Not every scenario is captured below so if you don’t see your experience reflected in the below, please email me (elisabeth@elisabethkramer.com). You can also use that email if you want to chat about a way to hire my wedding planner brain and/or do this work for you.
Thank you for prioritizing health, safety, and joy as you plan your wedding. Not easy! Very important!
Planning a 2022 wedding and want to communicate you and your partner’s boundaries for the wedding you’re hosting?
Planning a 2021 wedding and need to ask your vendors to get tested before attending your wedding in-person?
Planning a 2022 wedding and need to ask your vendors to quarantine before attending your wedding in-person?
Planning a 2022 wedding and need to ask your vendors if they’ve received the COVID vaccine (and booster) before attending your wedding in-person?
Planning a 2022 wedding and want proof that your vendors did any of the things above?
Planning a 2022 wedding and need to politely break up or reschedule with a vendor?
Planning a 2022 wedding and not sure what your COVID safety plan is yet?
Use this template and then sit down with your partner and make a COVID safety policy.