Steal this idea: honoring Covid wedding couples on the dance floor

This weekend I went to a friend’s wedding in Chattanooga, Tennessee and they experienced the most thoughtful reception thought to honor folks who obtained married through the top of COVID-19! 

Here’s how it went:

Though we ended up all busting moves on the dance ground, the bride and groom arrived on the mic to make an announcement. This is a paraphrasing of what they reported:

We comprehend we are so blessed to be in a position to collect with our good friends and household to celebrate our wedding ceremony working day. We also admit that due to the fact of the pandemic, there are many folks here today who had to celebrate their marriage with confined visitors and means. 

So tonight we’d like to invite all couples to the dance flooring who did not get to have a 1st dance at their marriage ceremony. Anyone else, be sure to lovingly stage to the facet. To our Covid couples, this song is for you.

It was these a sweet instant and I could notify the couples on the dance ground ended up certainly touched by the bride and groom’s thoughtfulness. I unquestionably saw some teary eyes as they had their “first dance”!

It wasn’t that lengthy ago we had been compelled to celebrate weddings with a constrained selection of individuals. I assumed this reception concept was a beautiful and considerate way to honor partners who obtained married through Covid, primarily these who could not have their loved ones witness their very first dance.

Dedicating a to start with dance tune to newlyweds who received married all through Covid is a neat way to honor couples at your (almost?) publish-pandemic marriage. So, now we want to know…

What did you do for your to start with dance? 

If you experienced wonderful thought, we want to listen to it! Tell us in the responses underneath. 

About the Creator: Suki

By day, Suki teaches screenwriting and sketch comedy. By evening, she’s the Assistant Editor and Social Media Manager of Offbeat Bride. She enjoys discovering the intersections of variety, culture, and dollars in the wedding ceremony business on her IG account @2buckchuckbride. In amongst crying over strangers’ marriage photos and building herself laugh, she likes to pretends she’s a sommelier.