OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

[Preston]

I know everyone has their own expectations for a wedding but after watching a friend try to plan a wedding during covid and all the family headaches, I think, nah that shit ain’t for me. City hall baby.

Ours went extremely smoothly despite having aggressively opinionated Italians in our ear. But Mrs. Preston and I don't really bend or break to that sort of shit and the more people told us to do something, the more we wanted to do the opposite. So it was actually awesome. But I know that's not usually the case.

As for a covid wedding... Nope. I feel for anyone who was trapped in this before the pandemic hit.

 

[hockeylover]

I tried this lol but Ms. Wayward would not consent

Yeah fair enough, easy enough for me to say alone. Seems like a lot of stress though, you’d hope guests would be more understanding.

 

[SundinsTooth]

I know everyone has their own expectations for a wedding but after watching a friend try to plan a wedding during covid and all the family headaches, I think, nah that shit ain’t for me. City hall baby.

Yes! My wife and I didn't tell anyone. Booked a ceremony with a private officiant and rented some space at the butterly conservatory. We rented a limo and afterwards drove around in our wedding garb and told our friends and family. Was a blast and not one ounce of stress or headache. It also cost well under 1,500 bucks too.

 

[trujaysfan]

I know everyone has their own expectations for a wedding but after watching a friend try to plan a wedding during covid and all the family headaches, I think, nah that shit ain’t for me. City hall baby.

Do not go with a traditional catholic church and then reception setup, it's entirely bullshit. By the end of it (3 pushed dates) we were counting down until it was over.

Do something fun for the day/week with a small group would be my reccomendation to everyone.

 

[Wayward DP]

Yeah fair enough, easy enough for me to say alone. Seems like a lot of stress though, you’d hope guests would be more understanding.

I'm pretty optimistic we are not going to have major issues. Most everyone is going to be travelling which requires vaccination anyways. And our guests are all pretty reasonable.

Although the first, and surprising drama occurred when Ms. Wayward informed her parents that she would not be inviting their siblings. My folks know better than to do anything beyond show up and offer to help.

 

[Wayward DP]

Yes! My wife and I didn't tell anyone. Booked a ceremony with a private officiant and rented some space at the butterly conservatory. We rented a limo and afterwards drove around in our wedding garb and told our friends and family. Was a blast and not one ounce of stress or headache. It also cost well under 1,500 bucks too.

I wish I could have convinced my better half to do something like this. Under the cover of the pandemic, of course

 

[LeafGm]

City hall ceremony, and then spending the huge pile of money you’d have sunk into a wedding on actually useful stuff >>>

 

[Preston]

The nice part about Italian weddings is that a lot of times, you make a profit on the gifts. We did quite well in ours. But the problem is you give it all back when your relatives get married. The circle of life.

 

[Wayward DP]

I too read over the proclamation and associated regulations and nowhere am I able to find anything about this $25 shenanigans.

My best guess is there is a pre-existing rule with a $25 threshold that perhaps now applies to the bozo brigade too? But even that is just pure speculation.

I suspect that the bozo brigade is completely ignorant as to what banks' current powers are, and are now up in arms about something the banks have had the power/authority to do for years. But who the hell knows.

 

[Wayward DP]

for anyone interested:

Link

 

[Wayward DP]

so folks may be interested to know that this occupation has pushed me over the brink to the point that I have started using my long dormant twitter account.

anyhow, my initial perusal leads me to conclude that the rules that the bozo brigade object to did in fact predate their objections. they are now just upset that the pre-existing rules are being applied to them.

i.e. they are upset that the people quite literally trying to overthrow the government by occupying its capital city and turning the downtown into a lawless zone are now being considered terrorists.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

"When you sit there and you see your wife on life support because of COVID, you throw out politics,"


umm..... duh - politics should have no place in medicine

That's the thing about Republicans. They only discover empathy when something bad happens to them or someone they care about. Only then do they have an epiphany. But as long as it's only other people suffering, their attitude is "Fuck em."

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

This one is just painful to read too:

Again, that's not Trudeau's fault. If you want to see your daughter and not accidentally cause her death from Covid, get your fucking shots, moron!

 

[hockeylover]

Boybands aren’t what they used to be.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

So about that wedding I'm going to next month... The drama that ensued when the RSVP came out and vaccines are still gonna be required to get in was something else. I really really don't want to go but it's my brother and he has had a tough year... But shit the red flags with the bride were obvious from day 1. Her family and friends are very upset with them for being "Nazi's" now. All because they are requesting that they get a "dangerous medical procedure" if they want to be at the wedding.

I was supposed to get hitched a year ago, then it was postponed until this summer. And we limited the numbers to family only and not being fully and completely vaxxed was not an option. Everyone was told straight up: failure to be vaxxed will result in the revocation of your invitation, full stop.

But now we may have waited too late. My dad has been diagnosed with cancer so our plans had to be cancelled again.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

As someone who had to fight literally every step along the way with many mental case mexican catholics about how I wanted my wedding to be...tell your brother to hold the line, it's his day too, not theirs.

We got a lot of no shows on the wife's side because I insisted in it being on a boat instead of in a church, insisted on a non catholic ceremony (our priest was a canadian lesbian, she was great) and a smallish reception in Vallarta instead of a big mexican reception in Guadalajara. Wife was tough to get on board at the beginning, but got excited when we started viewing the boats.

The people we gave a proper fuck about mostly showed, and almost 3 yrs later wife is entirely happy with how things went down.

Hold the line.

I hate events on boats. No means of escape. Plus I wouldn't be able to drink because I'd have to be popping Dramamine like they were Tic-Tacs.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Yes! My wife and I didn't tell anyone. Booked a ceremony with a private officiant and rented some space at the butterfly conservatory. We rented a limo and afterwards drove around in our wedding garb and told our friends and family. Was a blast and not one ounce of stress or headache. It also cost well under 1,500 bucks too.

Is that the butterfly conservatory that's a front for a pedophile ring?

Threats from QAnon conspiracists have forced a butterfly sanctuary in the Rio Grande Valley to close

The National Butterfly Center, along the U.S.-Mexico border in Mission, has been the target of conspiracy theorists since 2019.

www.texastribune.org

 

[MindzEye]

I hate events on boats. No means of escape. Plus I wouldn't be able to drink because I'd have to be popping Dramamine like they were Tic-Tacs.

It's a good thing that you're not my type then.

As for no means of escape....you're not thinking that through. True story, I paid the owner of the big boat to tow a small boat behind it, just in case. Now, that was incase one of my friends drank themselves into a coma (close...he just puked off the back) and needed medical attention, but still.

 

[worm]

City hall ceremony, and then spending the huge pile of money you’d have sunk into a wedding on actually useful stuff >>>

disagree
but that is just me

 

[Bleedsblue&white]

The nice part about Italian weddings is that a lot of times, you make a profit on the gifts. We did quite well in ours. But the problem is you give it all back when your relatives get married. The circle of life.

My niece was married and divorced in under two years.
I texted her that if you break up under two years you have to give all the gifts back, and that should actually be a rule lol.