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Planning a big and significant event like a wedding is by far no easy
feat. If you believe in the effects of Murphy’s Law, something may still go
wrong on the day itself even with the most well thought out plan. Especially
now with the pandemic, the standard procedure has changed drastically to
accommodate safety precautionary regulations.
To help you achieve a smooth celebration, here’s a list of wedding
planning concerns you might have overlooked and how you can account for them to
continue working towards your big day!
1. Planning Within the Small COVID-19 Guest List
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With a smaller guest capacity,
you’ve decided that your wedding will be an intimate affair with immediate
family members and a couple of close friends.
Particularly in view of Singapore’s phase 2 (heightened alert),
current guest list numbers have been restricted
to 50 as opposed to the original 100. While couples can still opt to invite
100 guests, they would need to afford the expenses for Pre-Event Testing (PET) for each guest. If you have a sufficient
budget to bear this additional cost, go for it! If not, a guest list of 50 will
have to suffice for now.
Of course with this arrangement,
it’s only natural to be puzzled over who to
invite. At some point, you’re probably bound to hurt some feelings of a friend
or loved one who was expecting an invitation. Unfortunately, situations like
these are unavoidable given current safety measures.
Hence, don’t feel obliged to invite everyone — or rather, guilty for not
inviting everyone — especially your bosses or colleagues. If you’re afraid of
passing on the wrong impression, refrain from mentioning your wedding at work
or amidst uninvited family members. Otherwise, you can consider simply gifting them a wedding favour. Whilst it may not be the same as having them be in the
same space, at least you’re letting them know that you have thought of them.
In any case, if those friends and
families truly cared for you, they’d understand your circumstances. They
wouldn’t bear petty sentiments towards your decision.
2. Making a Tasteful Decision For the Menu
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Let’s face it, one of the top
things that wedding invitees look forward to is the food! When you’re catering
food for a large crowd of your closest loved ones, it’s natural to try to
accommodate everyone’s taste and preferences.
But as you’re stumbling over how
to make a tasteful decision (no pun intended), the considerate move to cater to
various dietary preferences would be to request for your guests to indicate their dietary restrictions in
their RSVPs. Also, to be safe, look out for wedding catering services in Singapore that can provide vegetarian options.
3. Include Wedding Traditions: Yay or Nay?
As weddings start to become more contemporary each time, there might be less emphasis of incorporating time-honoured traditions and customs. Perhaps, between you and your partner, it may not be a priority either because you don’t see the importance of it all, or simply due to having little to no knowledge.
But if you wish to honour your
traditions and customs during such an important day, you’ll want to consult
with those who are well versed in them: the elders in your family. If your
parents aren’t sure, check with your grandparents or another elder – they would
have more knowledge on traditions like the Chinese Wedding Tea
Ceremony And, of
course, it’s best to rope them in the planning to ensure that you get these customs right.
4. Crafting Creative yet Safe Reception Activities
With no intermingling across
tables and rooms, activity planning for your reception can get rather
challenging. Yet, you wouldn’t want to swap it out for a reception without any
engagement. After all, it’s a celebration not just among you and your partner,
but with the ones who have journeyed and (possibly) even matchmade the both of you!
Consider games like Bingo where each table of guests has their own Bingo
card – maximising the interaction between guests sitting together. But if you
prefer to minimise your interactions, check out online gamified quizzes like Kahoot and Quizizz. While being
socially distanced, quiz your loved ones on the journey you and your
significant other has had up till the wedding day. This is a fun way to pit
both the bride and groom’s side of the family in friendly competition against
each other to determine which side knows the happy couple best of all!
[Updated of 18/5/2021]
Note: Wedding receptions are currently
unallowed during phase 2 (heightened alert) of Singapore’s COVID-19
restrictions.
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