Can I have an indoor party for 30? If it's a significant life event?

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Just that is it allowed now ? I've been reading the .gov guidance, obviously the venue we've booked might say no, but technically is it allowed?

It would appear so

You can’t sing or dance though - so what’s the point!

No singing. No dancing.
Masks on except when sitting eating or drinking.
Might be better to.postpone, unless that is the kind of party you had in mind.

Well you can have a wedding...
I didn't know you could have an indoor party of 30?

The guidance gives bar mitzvah's and christenings as examples. I doubt 30ths or 'I've got a new job' parties count. Nice try though. Celebrate outside. It is summer.

@titchy

The guidance gives bar mitzvah's and christenings as examples. I doubt 30ths or 'I've got a new job' parties count. Nice try though. Celebrate outside. It is summer.

A lot of fake weddings will be booked.

Yes I can’t dance but there’s nothing to stop you getting up to stretch your legs and maybe give your hips a little wiggle to free them up. Then you may have a little cramp in your arms which I s best relieved by waving them above your head. (You might need to repeat this a few times over the course of the evening) 😉

Yeah, why not? Honestly, fuck it.

@titchy

The guidance gives bar mitzvah's and christenings as examples. I doubt 30ths or 'I've got a new job' parties count. Nice try though. Celebrate outside. It is summer.

And some of us live in Western Scotland, but there you go, MN bubble at it's finest. Fuck it. Do it. Mostly people have stopped giving a fuck.

Why would living in Western Scotland prevent you having an outdoor event for up to 30 in the summer? Marquee, heaters, bucketloads of insect repellant surely?

A lot of fake weddings will be booked.

Weddings are expensive. You'd have to be really desperate for a party.

Do it outside OP or wait a few years until it’s possible to do it properly.

@titchy

Why would living in Western Scotland prevent you having an outdoor event for up to 30 in the summer? Marquee, heaters, bucketloads of insect repellant surely?

More like thermals and waterproofs.

@Ellmau I think the previous poster is saying that they'll book the venue for a do but say it's a wedding party

I don't get it - why can't you dance? I mean, i understand why they are against singing but I don't understand the risk of dancing?

Wait a few years . . . nah. If I'd bought into all this last year I'd not have gone and seen my father last Summer. It was the last time I saw him alive in person.

LOL, marquees and heaters, sounds just like inside, doesn't it? I'm in my jogging bottoms and jacket just now. Supposed to drop down to 6 tonight.

@99victoria

I don't get it - why can't you dance? I mean, i understand why they are against singing but I don't understand the risk of dancing?

Because you might, you know, touch each other. OMG! From the government that banned sex among adults who didn't live together last year . . .

'People don't socially distance when they drink'. Newsflash: they don't when they're sober, either .

These references to people touching each other in public and overnight temperatures below double figures do not relate to England or Wales. The touching bit does not relate to Scotland.

I had a 60th birthday party a couple of weeks ago. We were really lucky with the weather and had a lovely party for about 24 people in our garden. But we have bifold doors at the back of the house and we had them open and at various points during the evening 4 or 5 of us were just inside dancing away to the party playlist.

I honestly had no idea that dancing wasn't allowed! How strange!

Could do line dancing, two meters apart

Just book a ho-down in a barn.

@MrsLCSofLichfield

These references to people touching each other in public and overnight temperatures below double figures do not relate to England or Wales. The touching bit does not relate to Scotland.

Yeah, people in Scotland don't touch each other.

@SmidgenofaPigeon

Could do line dancing, two meters apart

Just book a ho-down in a barn.

Which dances, though? Even the easiest, the Virginia reel, involves touching, you hold both hands of your partner when you come in after set, then you link arms to go down the set before casting off, join hands again and slide down the set, then make a linked hands bridge with your hands held together and up for the second couple to slide to head position. Most of the other dances are far more intricate.

Yeah, as a Scot I can testify that it's a highly demonstrative and tactile culture, right enough.

@osbertthesyrianhamster I didn’t know I’ve been to a few in the country but I don’t think we touched, apart from the odd dozey-do

[quote SmidgenofaPigeon]@osbertthesyrianhamster I didn’t know I’ve been to a few in the country but I don’t think we touched, apart from the odd dozey-do[/quote]
That was a shite ceilidh .