The ups and downs of being a virtual wedding guest, do you feel it?

 More and more couples are finally getting married in the midst of the corona virus pandemic. For mutual safety, various precautions were taken to reduce the spread of the corona virus. One of them is to limit the number of guests who attend in person, and increase the number of virtual wedding guests. The hope is that relatives and friends can still witness and share in the happiness of the bride and groom.

One of the virtual wedding guests, Data Whining Retry, shared the joys and sorrows of attending a virtual wedding. According to Data, one of the advantages of watching a relative's happy day as a guest is that it does not require a lot of effort and effort to participate in this activity. “With a virtual party like this, we don't need to be stuck in traffic on the way to the location and have to get up early to get dressed. It's better, ”said this 31-year-old woman when contacted by Tempo.co on June 6, 2020.

Data attended the virtual wedding of her co-workers Trina and Eddy on 6 June 2020. This was Data’s first experience of being a guest in a virtual wedding procession. To attend the activity, he admitted that he was sufficient to prepare himself by taking a shower and wearing simple clothes.

Usually she needs to get dressed up for a few hours before finally leaving for the event location. If you have to come to the location, Data must prepare herself with very neat clothes and makeup, wearing heels, and perfume. Not to mention that he also had to take into account the time to leave and the traffic jams on the road to the wedding.

Although preparing to become a virtual wedding guest makes it easy, Data thinks there are also disadvantages to being a guest who can only see the bride and groom through a cellphone or laptop monitor. According to Data, he enjoyed the wedding aura less than when he was present in person. He also experienced technical problems when he wanted to see the sacredness of the process. "For virtual, I use two devices because one of them gets choked up and breaks up. My attention also lacks focus because at the same time doing other activities, so sometimes I have to turn off the video on his gadget. So I don't feel the nervous aura, “said Data.

Another virtual wedding guest, also enjoys simple preparations for the virtual wedding. He admitted that he only took a shower, used simple clothes, and added lipstick makeup to sweeten his face. "It's good not to bother with what clothes to wear and plan to leave early in the morning," said the 28-year-old woman.

On the other hand, Tri also feels some disadvantages of being a virtual wedding guest. One of them is the limitation of following the whole series of events. One example is when looking only from the monitor, often the camera showing the bride and groom is blocked by officers or passers-by.

In addition, virtual guests cannot clearly hear the performers because their voice or microphone echoes because they are not directly connected to the gadget that is recording the process. "Because you can't control anything, you can only surrender. If we were at the party location, when the view was obstructed by people, we could move. His voice can be heard more clearly because it is in the same place, right,”said Tries, who was a virtual wedding invitation guest for the first time.

Tempo also attended a virtual wedding. Based on Tempo's observation, invited guests, some of them continued to follow the wedding process by turning off their video and audio. Some have turned on their videos. When the video is on, you can see the appearance of the guests, some of whom only wear T-shirts and messy hair. There were also guests who appeared in batik shirts and fully dressed.

When they wanted to chat with the bride and groom, there was a little riot because almost all the guests wanted to talk to the bride and groom. That voice that shouted to each other, made the bride unable to greet her virtual audience one by one. Finally, the bride and groom waved their hands more and thanked her for taking the time to join the procession.

Courtesy: best wedding planner in Lahore