I have been invited to a wedding and another big party in the summer

My granddaughter was due to get married in August but they have postponed the reception until August 2022 (although they will still get married this year). Very sensible in these uncertain and unpredictable times.

Sparky56

Our sons wedding was planned for July last year. It did happen but only with 6 guests parents and witnesses. Big reception rebooked for August this year so ??
More important question though - should I get another outfit or use same one

Same one, why not?

I wore the same outfit to my daughter’s wedding and my son’s, 16 months apart.

If anyone notices, who cares?

A year of my life has been spent in lockdown- I've followed all the Rules and can't wait to follow the Roadmap to freedom- I'm desperate to get back to some normality, meeting family and friends, attending any parties I'm invited to, shopping for something besides food, just thinking of it is making me feel so much happier. This is my life and at 70 I don't want to waste any more of it.

How lovely Micky! I’ve just heard of somebody else getting married for the first time in their sixties, similar small gathering, nice to hear a normal piece of news! Congratulations!

My 69 year old friend is getting married tomorrow for the first time! Just 8 of us invited/going...masked. No reception.

Corkie91

Just heard rumours that Boris wants to extend lockdown until September Hope not I want to be able to attend parties and weddings in August. We cannot go on forever being locked down and not meeting people We are social creatures

The vote today was to extend the emergency powers tomSeptember, not the lockdown. It will give the government to ability to react quickly to potential rises in infections without having to have a new bill. Or at least that is my understanding as BJ said the original roadmap dates still stand

I hope people will be able to go ahead with their plans whatever form they take. We will of course still live in a country where Covid is around and will carry on isolating and testing as we are doing now. It just means we will hopefully not have restrictions in our lives.

Can’t really believe it yet. All restrictions lifted from 21 June. Unless it’s 2022!

My niece had her wedding booked for the end of June 2020 and has had to postpone it for a year. It is now touch-and-go whether it will go ahead this year. If it does, and I can go, then I certainly will!
What is also touch-and-go is whether I can still get into the wedding outfit I bought for it last year!

Not at all optimistic, ALL restrictions are supposed to be,removed as of June 21st. I am very concerned that people have been so conditioned to lockdown that they will struggle to ever fully participate in life again.

My opinion is even if we can it doesn’t mean we should.
My Village was hoping to have a Village Fair in July but cannot get insurance. Personally l considered it a bad idea especially when other gatherings were being cancelled or postponed.

Can’t see it happening and even if it was allowed I wouldn’t do it and not just because I hate large gatherings.

Me too Granysyb always give my hands a good wash job done

I find people worrying about loos a bit strange, I've been using them in Tesco's and our local park. I was really pleased to find them open.

Once we are out of all restrictions
I haven’t seen any mention yet of what will happen if someone catches Covid at an event or staff hosting an event, will they have to isolate? Will the venue have to close temporarily?
Or once lockdown finishes if we catch Covid are we free to go out and about if we want to? (I won’t but there are some who haven’t stuck by the rules at all)
Will schools still have to shut down if Staff and pupils catch the Virus?
Or after BJ declares that we are back to normal is that it?
No one has to tell us if they are sick?
Maybe it’s in some small print somewhere and maybe Covid will be a notifiable disease.

Who knows?
I think that we certainly have to have something to look forward to in the future . No harm in saying that you will go if at the time they will be allowed and also if they are planning to be held outside. By that time most if not all of us will have been vaccinated. You can always make sure that a mask is on your list for accessories and there's at least some hand sanitiser in your handbag! Can't believe that any of the venues will not have been making the right plans !

I had hoped that one benefit of the extended lockdown would be the demise of wedding plans that, to my mind, have become completely out of control in their unnecessary extravagance. Whatever happened to a simple exchange of vows?

I’m hoping to have a summer party in the garden to thank family, friends and neighbours for all the shopping they’ve done for me during the last year. It will also be a late birthday party for me as my Boxing Day birthday was spent alone, ditto Christmas. My choice.
If it doesn’t happen I’ll be sending a lot of flowers, if florists are working.

I think we all need to have hope that these things will go ahead but keeping in the back of our minds that they might not.
What's wrong with a bit of optimism and hope after the year we've had?

4allweknow

I had wrongly thought that the restrictions over the past year would show people if they want to marry they can without all the razzmatazz that weddings attract nowadays and of course the cost. I would not be happy going to a large group event especially with strangers possibly of all ages and of course alcohol usually being involved. If a small number I would start looking for an outfit.

People have always known that.

The problem to your thinking is that they LIKE the big party.

What hope people do learn, is that the only people who matter are the couple. Not the extended family/friends. If anything, it’s people outside the couple who often need to learn to take a back seat

I worry whether my family who live abroad will be able to visit in August. At the moment their country is on the red list.

I had wrongly thought that the restrictions over the past year would show people if they want to marry they can without all the razzmatazz that weddings attract nowadays and of course the cost. I would not be happy going to a large group event especially with strangers possibly of all ages and of course alcohol usually being involved. If a small number I would start looking for an outfit.

My DS and my future DIL had their wedding booked for beginning of August but have decided to cancel. Have lived together for 9 years and have two young children 3 and 6. They decided it was not worth the stress of will if happen or won't happen and the effect on the children on whether they will or won't be bridesmaid and page boy. Added to that my future DIL has 4 brothers and their broods plus a mother who lives in Spain and a father who has his own new brood. When you add our side of the family restricted numbers allowed to attend would just not work. They have now decided to forgo a big wedding and go to registry office and have a big party for family and friends at a later safer date. I just feel so sorry for all the
couples whose big day has the Covid cloud hanging over it. I just hope all the weddings this summer do go ahead.

The university where I work is not planning graduations until July 2022

Sorry... I would not have been able....