45,000 fans at Euro 2020 finals but no dancing at Dorset couple's wedding

The latest restrictions mean singing and dancing is not permitted for one Weymouth couple's special day

Author: Sophie CridlandPublished 15th Jun 2021

Big weddings are back for couples due to get wed from June 21st but there are some rules that need to be followed.

The pandemic hasn't been easy on anyone but saying I do for one Weymouth couple has meant two cancelled weddings and a change in how they celebrate.

As of June 21st the 30-person limit at wedding and funeral services is being lifted meaning unlimited guests but, socially distanced of course.

Singing and dancing at weddings is being frowned upon but aren't technically illegal.

Jodie Wilson is getting married to her partner on July 1st at Kingston Maurward but says she hasn't been able to get exited yet.

"It has been really hard because I tried not to get too excited as we've had to cancel it twice, I don't want to get excited and have to cancel again in two weeks time.

"We have been keen to go ahead but then it has been touch and go to whether my dad can give me away because he lives in Mallorca, now I know he can't come so I am ok."

Before the pandemic Jodie and her partner were due to get married in June 2020 with 65 guests, but once Covid hit, they had to whittle that number down to 30.

"Now the limit on guests has been lifted, I feel a bit relieved that we can have our original number but they are limiting the number of guests sat at a table to 6, which we hadn't planned, so now we need to order some centre pieces and some more tables.

"Things like this, it's going to end up costing us a lot more money.

"We've only got two weeks left now and it's getting really close, I just want to be enjoying this time, not feeling stressed and worried about it."

Weather permitting the happy couple are hoping to get married in the gardens of Kingston Maurward.

"For the evening we've got photobooths and a band booked for entertainment but we need clarification from the venue about what we can do, it's whether they will allow us to do all of that outside.

"I don't really want to have an evening do where we can't stand up dance and sing if you've got to sit down at a table and watch a band, it's not really how I envisaged the evening to go.

"We are hoping it can all go ahead outside, as long as it's not pouring with rain I think you can get away with it, not that a lot of the people that are coming will dance but you want to have some sort of dancing.

"It's just really bugging me that Wembley are allowed 40 thousand people for the final of the football and Wimbledon are having full capacity of people yet we can't have 50 people for my wedding having a little bit of a dance, it just seems completely unfair."

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