Loved-up couples the world over are being left devastated as their weddings have to be cancelled amid the COVID-19 outbreak. When this couple were unable to go through with their wedding as planned, they decided to exchange rings of a different kind.
Laura Acton, 25, and Adam Woods, 32, from Oldbury, West Midlands, were scheduled to tie the knot in March. The couple had been saving money to put toward their dream day for four years. However, as the coronavirus outbreak worsened, their big day was forcibly cancelled – less than 24 hours before they were set to walk down the aisle.
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About 18 hours before, their wedding venue contacted the couple to let them know they were closing due to the COVID-19 spread. The couple could not get a refund, but could postpone their wedding to a later date.
“It was one hell of a 24 hours. I am beyond heartbroken. I was supposed to be marrying my best friend but our venue cancelled on us,” Acton told Metro UK.
Devastated, the couple went on ‘honeymoon’ in Liverpool to avoid their home that was covered in wedding decorations. Along the way, they stopped off at a Burger King, where Woods had the idea to exchange onion rings in place of wedding bands.
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“Adam ordered some onion rings and when he came back to the car, he told me to put them on – and said we can still exchange rings. You just had to laugh. Seeing as we couldn’t exchange wedding rings we exchanged onion rings.”
She added: “We can still laugh through this as we have each other. If you sit and cry the whole time, you’re only going to make yourself feel worse.”
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Throughout the world, many are isolating themselves at home amid the coronavirus pandemic. Sitting at home, however, loses its spark quite quickly, and its necessary to find something…
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, this man had to make a decision of vital importance: to stay in Cairo or take the last available flight to Canada to be with his girlfriend. He chose the latter.
Eihab Boraie was in Cairo when the covid-19 broke out. His Italian-American girlfriend, Francesca Brunndisini, is in Quebec City. As the global health crises deepened and became increasingly serious, Boraie realised he had to act fast.
Soon things became more tense, as Egpyt announced that airports would shut down on March 19. This meant that the very few left over tickets were much more expensive than usual. But Boraie took his chances anyway. He didn’t expect things to work out.
“I assumed the only way I would be travelling home was if the Canadian government sent a plane to retrieve stranded Canadians,” he wrote on CNN.
Miraculously, he secured a seat on the very last flight to Canada. So he set off to be with his girlfriend, leaving behind his loving parents who’s health he worried about.
Once he arrived in Quebec City, he couldn’t wait any longer. The first thing he did when he saw Brunndisini was to get down on one knee and propose.
“She was completely caught off guard as less than 48 hours before she didn’t know when and if she would ever see me again, let alone predict that I would ask her to marry me,” he said.
“She accepted my proposal, we removed our masks and made it official with a long kiss,” he added.
Boraie joked that they sealed the deal with a ring and the possibility that he could have passed her the virus in that moment.
“When the world is healed, our plan is to get married in Italy on the island of Giglio, but it’s hard to imagine when that will be. Until that day the only couple goals we set in stone is to stay isolated and survive the quarantine,” he said.
Image: Facebook / Eihab Boraie
Let’s be honest, there are quite a few wedding guests who fall under the ‘non-essential’ category. We tend to invite people to be polite, because our parents expect…
If eyes are the window to your soul, then perfume is the gateway to your psyche. Wearing perfume is like making your own non-verbal statement. Your scent follows you, speaks of and to you.
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Simply walking down the aisle on your wedding day is so expected. Some brides and grooms feel the need to really set themselves apart on their big day,…
The show must go on in any way possible, right? This couple took a humorous approach to their postponed wedding by having a miniature wedding in quarantine…for their wedding favours.
Frankie and Mark, living in Thailand, were scheduled to marry in the UK. Of course, with the coronavirus outbreak, their wedding had to be postponed. The couple were left with 115 Lindt bunnies they had planned to use as wedding favours. While disappointed that their wedding could not go on as planned, the pair decided to have a little fun and lighten the mood.
They lined all the bunnies up and staged a mini wedding, complete with a veil for the bunny bride.
“We decided to stage some recreations – mainly to stop us just scoffing the whole lot of them.” Mark told Metro UK.
Mark shared the big day on social media, writing, “So our wedding has been postponed for obvious reasons and we had 115 chocolate Lindt bunnies as wedding favours – time for a bunny wedding of course!”
So our wedding has been postponed for obvious reasons and we had 115 chocolate Lindt bunnies as wedding favours – time for a bunny wedding of course! #CoronavirusLockdown #lindt #COVID19 #wedding pic.twitter.com/wELsXWS6Lc
— Mark in Bangkok (@thaispicytravel) March 25, 2020
This wasn’t the end of the bunnies day. They then hopped onto an ark (while maintaining safe social deistancing, naturally) and even competed in the Bunny Olympics.
Just in case anyone is (rightly) concerned about the bunny wellbeing after the #wedding, don’t worry we sent them to safety 2 by 2 on this ark.
2 bunny metres at all times of course. #CoronavirusLockdown #coronabunnies #lindt #COVID19 #lindtgoldbunny #lindtbunnystories pic.twitter.com/ZHgYW3YyHr
— Mark in Bangkok (@thaispicytravel) March 25, 2020
One more bunny adventure then.
Continuing the massively tenuous theme of postponed events: the Bunny #Olympics2020.
Featuring 100m, javelin, medal ceremony and anything else we could cobble together from the kitchen drawer.#lindtbunnystories #CoronavirusLockdown #lindt pic.twitter.com/NJhH3pq200
— Mark in Bangkok (@thaispicytravel) March 26, 2020
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