I've got my wedding planned for August 2021. My partner is from Belgium and we're looking to have maybe up to 40 or so people from Belgium making the trip over. Wedding size is somewhere between 80-120 people.
We're naturally looking at postponing it until next year...but if we do that, then it means that all of our friends and family coming from outside the UK will need to get passports or other documentation, rather than just use their ID cards.
It's a monumental pain and you have no idea the amount of stress this has caused. It's just another thing to think about. So, we either keep our current date and risk not having the people that we want there because of the Covid-restrictions with numbers, or we re-book it for next year and force all of these people to pay an additional cost to come over.
Well aware that this is only me we're talking about and that there are people out there with businesses and their livelihoods that they're worried about with these changes, and I feel for them all. There will be others in far more precarious positions who will be worried or frustrated and I can sympathise with them.
I'm very anti-Brexit and the only word that I can come up with to describe this is: unnecessary. I am still waiting to see the gains, because whenever this is talked about, it is always about damage limitation. My Belgian-in-laws, friends and family outside of the UK don't understand why the UK is doing all of this to themselves and for what end.