When coronavirus-related precautions disrupted their wedding plans, these brides and grooms moved their celebrations online and got married anyway.
. That’s not the case in many other places — at least not yet. So if you’re planning a wedding anytime soon, check with local officials to see if you can get a marriage license remotely, to make sure a virtual ceremony in your area is legally binding, and to ask what other requirements must be met. Even if it’s not legal where you are, there’s no reason you can’t do a symbolic tying of the knot now and a more official ceremony down the road.
“We had a destination wedding scheduled for April 18 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. We spent the last year planning our perfect day, only for our wedding and jobs to be taken away by COVID-19. My beautiful fiancé and I decided last minute to go ahead and have a virtual ceremony here in our home state of Florida, and it was perfect. We will still have our reception at a later time, but we knew we wanted a marriage — and the wedding itself wasn’t all that important.
“Our original ‘big day’ was supposed to take place on April 11, our anniversary. But we got married on April 8 at a small county building in San Diego called the Marriage Hut, complete with a walk-up window and waterfront view. We hosted a Zoom reception that evening in the living room. We expressed our handwritten vows. We danced to our song — sung by my talented brother-in-law, Steven, with his guitar. We cut our cake, handmade by my loving sister Taelyn. We ate a delicious dinner, prepared by my wonderful mother. We giggled, cried and celebrated with our loved ones. We got to do all the things. While we look forward to hosting an in-person celebration at some point, our wedding day morphed into something remarkable.
What was a little strange was when we kissed and were pronounced husband and wife, I was just naturally expecting to hear applause — except there was nobody there to clap! I ended up clapping for us, knowing that everyone at home was clapping for us too. It was bittersweet, missing that moment, but it was also just as blissful. At its height, I was told the ceremony had 300 live viewers, since then it’s up to 1,000 views.
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