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Washington, D.C.’s, new social distancing rules ban standing and dancing at weddings. The sudden announcement, made at the beginning of the wedding season, has taken couples by surprise. Their weddings are already planned…with music!
“It’s insane, it’s been an absolute roller coaster,” says Stephanie Sadowski, a D.C. wedding planner and owner of SRS Events.
Sadowski says couples are being forced to move their weddings outside of the nation’s capital with just one or two week’s notice.
“They want to have a party. Planning their wedding, they’ve made concessions along the way, they’ve reduced, reduced, and reduced their guest count in Washington, D.C,” she says.
Too close! Washington DC mayor bans DANCING at weddings out of fear people will touch each other while reception capacity is capped at 25%
Washington DC mayor banned standing and dancing at weddings in the same 12-page reopening plan that loosened almost every other restriction
Mayor s office told FOX 5 DC ban was put in place as an extra layer of safety because when people stand and dance their behavior changes
DC wedding planners are trying to move weddings to neighboring states with looser restrictions
Illinois and Michigan have similar dance bans while New York and New Jersey allows wedding attendees to only dance with their partners
After 2020 threw wrenches in the wedding plans of so many couples, some are now facing yet another hurdle. D.C. just banned dancing at indoor and outdoor weddings, leaving lovebirds to scramble to find wedding venues outside the District.
One wedding planner complained that D.C. s starting to feel a little like the mythical town of Bomont in the classic movie Footloose the town that banned dancing. Completely shell-shocked, Stephanie Sadowski of SRS Events said of her reaction to hearing the news.
The city is loosening some pandemic restrictions, but at her news conference Monday, Sadowski said Mayor Muriel Bowser sneaked in a bombshell. The latest order allows indoor weddings at 25% capacity, or 250 people which was a bit of relief but standing and dancing at receptions are not allowed.