What to do if you get sick right before your wedding
Getting sick right before the wedding triggers deep conflict about whether to go ahead or reschedule. It robs you of the anticipated celebration experience, leaving you feeling like you are missing out on your own weekend.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Proceeding with the event while wearing masks and relying on flexible outdoor plans
- 2going to urgent care
- 3taking vitamin C, Airborne, or Emergen-C
- 4drinking lots of water and fluids
- 5getting rest and laying low
- 6taking Real Sudafed, ibuprofen, and Tylenol
- 7taking a Covid/flu combination at-home test
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I'm feeling very conflicted- honestly I just don't want to be sick for my own wedding weekend.”source ↗
“I feel like I'm losing out on the experience I wanted to have, and will continue to do so all weekend.”source ↗
“HELPPP my wedding is Saturday, and I'm starting to not feel well I have some cold symptoms, but I fear they are going get worse due to my son being sick all last week with a high fever!”source ↗
Where this came up
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