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My wife and I are both fully vaccinated/boosted. We have a four year old and a nine month old. If we (just the grown ups) go to a wedding, where guests are not masked and are not tested prior to entry, is there a high risk that we can bring the virus home and get our kids sick?
Both you and your wife have done everything that you can do to achieve personal protection. Unfortunately, you will be in a public gathering with persons that may be infected and unmasked (we might also assume that some individuals may be unvaccinated in this group). You will have to acknowledge some risk of infection through attending this gathering. Thankfully, the risk to your young children is relatively low, assuming they are otherwise healthy (i.e., your young child and infant do not have known immunocompromising conditions or other chronic conditions). You may also expand your calculation of risk for this event to evaluate whether your circle of relatives and friends that you interact with frequently consist of any older adults or immunocompromised individuals. If yes, then you would want to avoid re-establishing contact with these individuals for a period of time (like a quarantine time) before being back in-person with such individuals, to protect them. I mention this because many people also have the role of caregiver to an older parent or other people in their communities and these individuals may be at risk for very severe disease (including hospitalization or death) if they were to get the infection.
