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In many parts of the world, the temporary closure of marriage records has caused problems for many people who want to obtain certificates. Debbi Odukoya, a 29-year-old clinical psychologist in London, said that in April this year, she should have had a two-day wedding with her fiancé Oluchi in Nigeria.
“We spent a whole year preparing it,” but since early March, guests said they couldn’t be there. Although the bride-to-be wanted the wedding to take place as scheduled, she decided to cancel it after several difficulties.
For someone like Odukoya who has spent months preparing for a “perfect wedding,” postponing the marriage period is not a planned option.
To solve this problem, many people choose to celebrate a wedding in another way. And on April 18, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo also said New York State will allow newcomers to receive marriage certificates remotely and have relevant staff organize the wedding by video.
Connecting with video software like Zoom has become a popular way for many newcomers to celebrate weddings. They will also invite friends and family to participate in your wedding remotely. Cuomo’s executive order allows newcomers in New York State to process relevant documents and procedures via video, further promoting the spread of this trend.
Of course, Zoom is not the only platform, and many remote weddings are done through FaceTime, Facebook, or other platforms with video connection capabilities.
Practice has shown that Zoom’s wedding doesn’t seem to be as “plastic” as people think. In this edition of the full media compilation (ID: quanmeipai) of media articles like The Verge and The Guardian, through four online video weddings, how will it feel to say “I’ll do it” with Zoom?
The video wedding has become a “rejuvenating agent”
“The day that belongs to him has finally come.”
Lisa Kabouridis was led by two sons to the waltz tune played by the bagpipes, and entered the wedding hall. The wedding was a success, for her, it was a miracle. Her fiancé, Graeme Blackett, was wearing a kilt and was smiling at the altar waiting for her.
Of course, the “Temple” here is just the corridor of his home in Edinburgh, not the imaginary old castle. The “Altar” is also simply found in the living room.
In the past, many newcomers felt when they swore the oath: “It seems we only have two left in the world.” But for Kabouridis and Blackett, this sentence is true, because everyone else is on the other end of the web.
Kabouridis and Blackett are one of the many couples getting married. Many people decide to postpone the wedding directly, but there are also people like Kabouridis and Blackett who choose to host an “internet wedding”.
Today, Instagram’s # ZoomWedding # search already has hundreds of live wedding photos. Zoom is primarily used for commercial video conferencing software, and now it has become the first choice for couples to celebrate weddings online. Even people who do not know much about technology, it is relatively easy to use Zoom, the wedding owner can also maintain the order of the wedding through silence.
For many viewers, participating in a wedding through a video platform is also very wonderful. Blackett’s cousin has been staying in Italy recently. After the wedding, he told Blackett that this wedding was a much-needed soda.
“We thought this wedding would be very entertaining, but it really wouldn’t be,” added Kabouuridis, “A lot of people cried on screen. This is a beautiful wedding.”
Looking back, the couple also said that choosing a video wedding may be their best option. To cater to guests who couldn’t make it, they also used a video platform for the live broadcast.
The wedding in the kitchen is not uncomfortable
Scott Westergren and Kristy Washer originally planned to celebrate their wedding in Louisville, Kentucky, in March of this year. In mid-March, they canceled the plan.
But Westergren didn’t want to give up, he said to his fiancée: “Listen, I don’t care what we do. Even on video call, we have to get married on March 26.”
Before this, neither Westergren nor Washer had used Zoom. All they knew about it was that the two children had started using the platform for online lessons a week ago. However, they decided to try it. The day before the wedding, they rehearsed with the guests, and the hostess also connected with them on Zoom.
At the official wedding, they put the laptop on the kitchen work table and stood in front of the computer with the children. Washer’s wedding dress is a neat white dress on Amazon.
“The first few minutes were really embarrassing and weird. I didn’t know what I was doing,” said Westergren, “but when the hostess started talking, we were both engaged and the atmosphere of the wedding naturally rose.”
Watch the ceremony in the car and achieve resonance with the “screen”
Fairy lights hung in the colored shed, and the bride was wearing a white wedding dress, with a bouquet of plastic bouquets in hand, and walked to the red carpet. At this wedding, bouquets, lights, and red carpets come from online shopping platforms. There were not many guests present, only members of the immediate family and “rabbi” (rabbi, a special class of Jews, teachers, and symbols of sages). The weather forecast said it would rain, but on this sunny day, 23-year-old student Eliana Amrami from Chicago and her boyfriend Elliot Birn married in her parents’ garden. According to Jewish wedding customs, they are about to break a glass under their feet.
The couple’s family and friends were unable to attend the wedding, they drove to the neighborhood and watched the wedding with Zoom or YouTube live. They sat in the car and watched the couple holding their hands tightly and smashing a glass of wine across the phone screen.
When the glass broke, the car’s whistle blew across the sky. On the computer screen, the elders who were watching the ceremony smiled and greeted the newcomer.
“We are traditional Jews,” Amrami explained to the online wedding. “We haven’t lived together! We can’t wait any longer. We want to get married.” After a whole night of suffering, the family finally decided to stay home. Host a backyard wedding and stream live via video software.
Amrami was frustrated before the wedding, but the results clearly exceeded her expectations: “I can’t believe this wedding is much better than I thought.”
You can also get “full of friends” online
The situation is similar for Gina Frangello and Rob Roberge, who live in Chicago: They have planned to hold a literary festival in March and then hold a wedding in California. But the two writers soon realized that it was irresponsible to invite hundreds of guests to a small town with fewer than 300 permanent residents.
Roberge is a professor at the University of California (Riverside) and told his colleagues about the decision to cancel the wedding at a staff meeting. Its leader suggested that he “use video software” and even suggested helping organize it.
On the eve of this “improvisation” wedding, Frangello and Roberge texted their friends, asked for their email addresses, and then sent them an invitation. Suddenly, those friends who were unable to go to the wedding site because they lived too far or too old were excited to say that they could attend this wedding online.
“We can’t celebrate a literary week, and we can’t get married in California. We were very sad, but online weddings made us change our minds,” said Frangello. “We were no longer saddened by the failure of the plan.”
After the wedding, the couple bought sushi at the Lawrence Fish Market in Chicago. Although this was not the planned wedding reception, they still felt it was a successful day.
“This is one of many accidents, especially the beautiful one,” said Roberge. “This does not happen often in life, but it is more memorable than any perfect plan.”
Reference link:
1.https: //www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/mar/31/the-day-was-full-of-joy-and-love-how-people-are-getting-married-while-in- confinement
2.https: //www.theverge.com/2020/4/18/21226544/cuomo-new-yorkers-marriage-licenses-zoom-coronavirus
(This article comes from the WeChat public account “All Media School” (ID: quanmeipai), published by Ai Faner with permission. )
