Further to my earlier news on my son’s wedding I have just spent an hour or so going through the Govt revised rules on weddings. As previously discussed ours is a Big Tent wedding. The documents are hard to follow with lots of cross references and several places where the requirements are laid out for commercial or indoor venues but then suggest these don’t apply to outdoor private venues but don’t lay out what does apply there. The govt hasn’t heard of flow charts or tables.
From what I can see all that the law requires is a risk assessment of the capacity of the Big Tent with one metre social distancing. It then goes on to say words to the effect that this is so that attendees can socially distance if they want to. Not that they must socially distance. The rest of the assessment is mainly on stuff like hygiene, congestion avoidance and signage
Quite a lot is simply “advice”. Table service for example is not a must. Dancing is not encouraged but they can’t touch you for it. I think drinking standing up is still forbidden for some reason but I will need to check. Also the exact position on mask wearing when moving about now eludes me.
I am still pleased that we can go ahead and sitting in a draughty tent seems as safe as we can make it while others are still subject to other restrictions. Roll on the 10th July. It will be a great day whatever hoops we have to jump through.
Last edited by: martin aston on Tue 15 Jun 21 at 15:34
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