In lockdown, couples are getting married through video- conferencing, using Zoom to livestream their weddings. Find out more on Grazia.
‘I stood outside my house,wedding dress on, and my two sons knocked on the door to alert the piper, who was waiting on Zoom,’ says Lisa Kabouridis. ‘My sons then walked me down the hallway of our house while our piper played The Sky Boat Song. I met my husband at the “altar” in our living room, where a laptop was waiting with all our guests – ready to watch us get married.’
Over in the US, New York governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order to allow weddings to become legally binding where couples obtain licences and marry ‘utilising audio-video technology’. Current UK law, however, states that witnesses and officiants must be present in person for a wedding to be legal. For Lisa and Graeme, that meant parts of their ceremony had to be left out – including swapping rings and ‘tying the knot’ in the handfasting practice . However, they did say their vows to 150 of their friends and family – which was 70 more than had been due to attend the original wedding.
‘Everybody dressed up, there were loads of my friends wearing hats and all of the guys were wearing kilts,’ Lisa says. ‘And at the end we all did a big cheers and chatted – the call lasted about an hour in total.’
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