This whole global thing is really testing the phrase “love will find a way.” With couples all around the world having their wedding plans abruptly wrecked(like me), they’ve been forced to get creative with how they’re tying the knot. Here are some of the ways people are still saying “I Do” during this crisis:
- The Livestreamed Wedding.With only a small wedding party of immediate family and a rabbi in attendance,Eliana Amrami and Elliot Birn exchanged their vows in their parents’ garden in Chicago with decorations from Amazon. Keeping things socially distant, extended family and friends watched the wedding via the Zoom and YouTube streams. Some of them parked in a nearby street so that when the couple stamped on the glass, they could lay on their car horn in celebration. According to the bride “it was so much better than [she] could have imagined.”
- Now or never?For some, the lockdown has made them reassess what’s really important. U.K. residents Isobel Burston and Ian were due to be married in April,but then March happened.The government banned gatherings of more than 10 people and they had to have a serious chat about their plans. After some crying, they agreed to postpone things but then rumors of a full-on national lockdown hit. “I turned to Ian and said: ‘I would like to marry you,’” Burston recalls. “‘How about this weekend?’ He looked at me like I was mad. And then we had this moment of realisation, like: if we want to marry, we have to do it now.” The next day, amongst flowers from a local supermarket, the two were wed.
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Source:The Guardian