Couple getting married at Dublin airport after Covid-19 canceled their wedding plans

LOVE IS IN the air at Dublin Airport as a couple got married in the lobby of the Old Central Terminal Building.

French couple Nico and Justine Buhler got married today at the airport, after Covid-19 restrictions disrupted their wedding plans.

This is the first time a wedding has been held at the airport itself, as opposed to at the airport church.

The couple, who have lived in Ireland for 18 months, were due to marry on April 24, but were canceled due to the pandemic. After several attempts to rearrange the wedding and find other venues were unsuccessful, the couple faced the prospect of their wedding license and paperwork expiring at the end of October.

The couple appealed to Dublin Airport to ask if the wedding could take place there. And while European law means that only passengers and staff can be in terminals, the airport offered them the opportunity to get married outside of the airport’s original terminal building, built in 1940.

Today’s humid weather forced the ceremony into the lobby.

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Under Irish law, weddings must take place somewhere open to the public.

The ceremony was small, with only a handful of observers due to public health guidelines.

Previously, the couple said they had just told close family and friends. Speaking to RTÉ News, they said they wished their family could have been there.

“We cannot do that, we cannot put them at risk. So it’s a difficult step to take, but we had to take it, ”Nico said.

“On Monday we didn’t have a wedding planned,” he said. “I woke up on Tuesday morning. We have been traveling a lot, airports are always open. So I plucked up the courage and called. “

“It’s crazy,” he added.

“We were hoping we could do it today because it is our fifth anniversary. It’s even better to be able to do it like this. What a crazy day, ”Justine said.

A DAA spokesperson said the airport was “delighted to help make their day special.”

“This is 80^th Dublin Airport anniversary and it was fitting that the wedding took place in the iconic 1940s building that symbolizes Ireland’s connection to the rest of the world during those 80 years, ”they said.

“Many of life’s events happen at the airport: we have had a birth, an engagement, we have saved more than 30 lives through our defibrillator program and today was our first wedding (which was not at the airport church) “.