Rachel Brenner, a graduate student in New York, is anxiously facing a deluge of fall weddings, bachelorette parties, and other wedding-related activities. “I’ve been hesitating to RSVP to any of them,” she says. The expense will be significant, she says, and she’s uncomfortable traveling right now because, well, we’re still in a pandemic.
There’s no doubt about it: After a year of postponed and cancelled nuptials, this autumn has seen a wave of weddings as people scramble to book dates before the next potential round of quarantine (I had one friend tell me that she had two weddings to attend on September 11, the only date left for multiple “last-minute” bookings this year).
