Covid at weddings

[donutqueen11]

Hss anyone been to a wedding or a big inside event and not caught COVID recently?? I have just heard of another friend today who has caught covid from a wedding at the weekend. Nearly 85% of guests have tested positive. This is about the 5th friend or relative that has caught covid from a wedding or party We are at a wedding on Saturday but have a really important week at work next week and can't be off work as well as needing to help look after my parents. I would be devastated if after going to the wedding I infected them. We are all double jabbed but as we know it doesn't stop transmission. Would AIBU to not go the wedding? It is one of my best friends so I know she would be devastated if I didn't go.

SIL got married a few weeks ago. We didn’t go because dh can’t stand her.

But so many people tested positive afterwards (including PIL refused to be tested despite having symptoms and carried on merrily going out and coughing over everybody as they are double jabbed so, in their words, it couldn’t possibly be covid).

85% of the people at the wedding tested positive? And all of them have not only developed symptoms by Tuesday but are confirmed positive too? Yeah, right.

Weddings are probably riskier than something like being in a theatre or on the bus, because weddings tend to have lots of people you know so there's hugging, being very close together chatting to people and so on. You wouldn't have that with strangers. So if someone there has covid, it is easy to spread.

I’ve been to 3 weddings in the last 3 weeks. The first two were within 48hrs of each other in different countries (Scotland then England)
By the time I was down at the English one, I’d heard about 90% of people from the Scottish one had tested positive so was freaking out. Did lft every day for about a week, all negative. PCR negative as well.

I’m absolutely gobsmacked that we’ve managed to avoid it when almost everyone at the first wedding ended up positive!

I went to a wedding recently BUT there were restrictions on numbers in the ceremony, the tables in the reception were very spaced, there was no dancing or singing and I only saw one or two people hugging the bride as they left. It was all low key but lovely and no COVID cases to my knowledge.

I think at a big wedding with singing/dancing/hugging there would be more risk and COVID cases are very high in my area at the moment.

I’ve been to two weddings and a special birthday event. Boy heard of anyone catching Covid.

Went to a wedding in august. It rained, was indoors, no Covid.

Been to two no one caught COVID, just didn't go see my nana for a few weeks afterwards. Could you limit contact with your parents for a few days then do a PCR if they are CEV.

Yeh loads. My own wedding, no-one got covid. Two friends weddings over summer, no-one got covid. I’ve been to the theatre twice, a pop concert & a big 60th birthday party, no covid. I’ve spent the day in a heaving shopping centre, no covid. And I’ve had 4 kids birthday parties since September. 30+ kids plus 30+ adults crammed into a village hall or house. So far, no covid.

For the love of god go to your best mates birthday party 🤦🏼‍♀️ I’d be fuming with my best friends if they cancelled cos covid. Fair enough if vulnerable or exceptional circumstances but if young & jabbed, come on.

It was my wedding a few weeks ago. A few guests had caught Covid before the wedding. One tested positive after but to my knowledge no one else. Except one guest and his kids have it now but wouldn't have got it from my wedding. A few have had that horrible cold (inc myself and DH). I was at a wedding reception on Friday and haven't caught it.

Oh and there was lots of dancing, singing, hugging, inhaling that stuff from helium balloons....

I avoided a wedding of 80 guests due to covid fears. Gutted to miss but I want to avoid covid due to other health issues. Nobody caught covid.

Pal went to a kids birthday of ten adults and ten children. Half caught covid. One double vaxd guest is bedridden still three weeks later. Double vaxd doesn’t equal safe. It seems to give you a better chance of survival but it’s not a panacea.

Each person has to decide what’s best for them. Whether it’s worth the risk too.

I've been to many indoor crowded events and not caught covid!

I have just heard of another friend today who has caught covid from a wedding at the weekend. Nearly 85% of guests have tested positive.

Your friend is telling tall stories. It would take at least three days for most people to show any symptoms let alone book a pcr test and get the result back.

@Tellmeee

I went to a wedding recently BUT there were restrictions on numbers in the ceremony, the tables in the reception were very spaced, there was no dancing or singing and I only saw one or two people hugging the bride as they left. It was all low key but lovely and no COVID cases to my knowledge.

I think at a big wedding with singing/dancing/hugging there would be more risk and COVID cases are very high in my area at the moment.

What a shame, are you in a country that is still restricting weddings? I'd be very upset at a wedding with no dancing and no one hugging!

Went to a small wedding last month, 20+ people tested positive for covid in the following week, including my husband.

Somehow, despite being with him the whole time & after, I avoided it.

We had our wedding in August with 50 people including 2 people aged 90. Significant proportion of the guests were not vaccinated. No one caught covid.

Without a doubt some people are catching covid at some events but this is to be expected as covid is not going away and we need to come to terms with that.

Friends of ours were due to go to a wedding a couple of weeks ago. They all did LFTs in the morning, and one of their DCs tested positive. No symptoms until a few days later. They didn’t go, but if they hadn’t tested first they would have done. I guess the risk depends how seriously everyone else is taking it?

Yes me. And I took a PACKED (no spare seats and people standing between carriages) train for 90 minutes to get there.

Went to a wedding where the brides mum had covid and wasn’t in attendance but her dad was (so high chance of carrying), no one I know caught covid from it.

It really depends. Many weddings are happening atm and the vast majority are covid free and have no cases afterwards. Problem is it only takes 1 person to attend with covid.

I totally get your worry. I am very the same and her avoided things with the worry about covid. If you'd rather stay back then don't go. Who's wedding is it? Will they be upset if you don't go?! Is the wedding a big one? Perhaps go but don't get too close to anyone else. Drunk happy people tend to forget social distancing 😅

you have the same chance as catching it at a wedding as you do everytime you do a food shop, or go to work, or doing anythign else in life....

It's just pot luck really. If no one else at the event has it then there obviously won't be any transmission. And most times that's the case. But it only takes one infected person to bring it in and it's highly likely to spread it to many.

It's not the same risk as going shopping, I'd put it quite a bit higher depending on the nature of the wedding, venue etc. You'd be unlucky to catch it in a supermarket because you don't tend to stay close enough to anyone for an extended time. But you go shopping every week, whereas a wedding is a one off event.

Ultimately, we're all going to catch it sometime, being cautious is just delaying the inevitable. The best time to get it is probably shortly after you've last had a shot of vaccine.

If you’ve been to other big events and not worried about it then I’m not sure why this wedding is making you so anxious.
There’s probably less risk at a wedding for 100or so people than a full theatre.
There is a risk, but as you’re doing other things, if I was your friend and you cancelled at this late stage I’d be incredibly hurt. It would be different if you’d not been out and about to other big events.