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Italian wedding plans and the perils of getting the ‘wrong’ vaccine

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LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

By Alexandra Tyan

It feels like a twist from some bad Netflix series. I am getting married next week and a new pandemic panic has only added to all the usual pre-wedding jitters: will my family make it to the ceremony? 

My fiancé is Italian and we had planned a small, family service in a castle in Southern Italy. With the help of Green Passes and new regulations, Europe is now opening up, but my family lives in Moscow and our plans have been tangled up in a Kafka-esque nightmare of pandemic-era travel politics.