just witnessed the most incredible thing. after being read a passage from “love in the time of cholera” from a marriage officiant 5 stories up, down below, these two souls were married on the streets of upper manhattan. what. a. coronavirus. moment. pic.twitter.com/8MBOj5VLlp
— Talal Ansari (@TalalNAnsari) March 21, 2020
Inspiring sidewalk wedding delights cooped-up New Yorkers
A heartwarming video showing a couple getting married on a Manhattan sidewalk is curing coronavirus blues on Twitter.
In the sweet ceremony, the officiant bellows a passage from Gabriel García Márquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera” from a fifth-floor window, as a small crowd gathers around the brides below.
“They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love,” he read, as onlookers craned their necks.
“That was an excerpt from ‘Love in the time of Cholera,'” he clarified as the crowd burst into laughter.
Not all tradition was out the window: Bride Reilly Jennings wore a chic white jumpsuit and held a small bouquet of white flowers, while her partner Amanda Wheeler dressed a smart suit jacket.
“Do you promise to love, honor, cherish and keep her for as long as you both shall live? If so, say I do,” the officiant read as sirens blared, a baby cried in the background and cars stopped in the middle of the street to watch.
Twitter was giddy over the caught-on-camera vows, posted to the website around 8 p.m. Friday.
“I f–king love you, New York,” @PaulWuster replied to a posting of the video.