Do you have a wedding planned for this summer? Don't open the caviar yet.

Like all events that involve crowds, weddings in the near future are going to look "a little different," Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday afternoon in a Q&A with The Courier Journal.

"This is one of the hard parts of a virus like this," Beshear said. "... Obviously right now if we still have the rate of cases that we do at the moment, any type of mass gathering, even if it’s a special occasion like a wedding, we can’t do."

Several readers reached out to The Courier Journal ahead of Monday's interview, which was livestreamed on Facebook, with concerns about how the coronavirus pandemic could impact weddings planned around the commonwealth this summer. Cases are expected to reach a peak early next month before dropping, though health officials have warned that relaxing social distancing guidelines would likely cause COVID-19 infections to spike again.

Kentucky recorded 102 new confirmed coronavirus cases and six new deaths Monday, Beshear said, and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said earlier in the day that there were nine new cases and two deaths in the city.

Kentucky is making progress, Beshear said, but restrictions are going to be lifted slowly. Most weddings have more than 10 people in attendance, but the governor said it may be a while before more than 10 people are able to gather in one place.

"Even in a phase reopening, in phase one, once we hit it, it’s groups of no more than 10 people," Beshear said. "So people ought to be real thoughtful of that."

There are other options, like a virtual wedding — "I know that’s not what you want to do," he said, "but for the next month or two at least, at least, with the size that most of them are, that’s probably the option you ought to consider."

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He expressed some optimism for later this year as well. But for the time being, weddings aren’t going to look like you’re used to seeing.

Attendees will have to wear masks, Beshear said, and getting everybody together for a safe family photo is going to be “really difficult.”

"Hopefully as we move into the fall we’ll have some better options, Beshear said. "But again, our new normal will look and will probably feel a little bit different.

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