My New Orleans
01/13/2021
Each Wednesday, we tackle wedding etiquette. At times, it’s a reader question or one from a colleague, friend or family member and other times we’ll cover a popular issue. (Note: Questions may be edited for clarity and brevity.)
Question: My fiancé and I decided to proceed with our upcoming wedding, but due to COVID have scaled it down to only us, our parents and one witness each (our siblings we each have one, so it worked out!), plus the officiant and photographer (all socially distanced, of course). The original plan was 200 guests and eight attendants for each of us. Now I have to break the news to all of my best girlfriends who have been with me through every relationship up and down, plus now a pandemic. They were even willing to still do the wedding if we could find a safe way to manage it. (We couldn’t, at least not in good conscience.) We are having it outdoors and will livestream the ceremony, but again, we will have no in-per