Russian couple wed over live stream
No guests, no problem -- for this Russian couple who tied the knot alone.
Greda and Pavel married in a Moscow registry office -- but with the government lockdown banning gatherings -- guests instead joined the ceremony through an Instragam live feed.
Under new restrictions in Moscow only the bride and groom are permitted to attend weddings ceremonies.
New bride Greda, welcomed the experience:
(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) MOSCOW RESIDENT, NEWLY WED WIFE, GERDA BARANOVSKAYA, SAYING:
“Friends, relatives and people who know us had a much more colorful reaction to it than us. We basically just got up, packed up, went there, did a stream online, and that’s it. Throughout the day we received various congratulations, congratulations during the ceremony and the party."
After the ceremony, Greda and Pavel held an hours-long wedding reception via a Zoom video conference
They honoured the traditional tossing of the bouquet -- with a contest to see who would be the first to give the bride's flower emoji message a virtual ‘like’.
Prizes for other wedding games included toilet paper, hand sanitizers and other stockpile staples.
The newlyweds said the upside of an online wedding was the reduced cost -- the couple only spent a mere 650 roubles -- about 9 US Dollars.
With the ceremony behind them, the happy couple are now gearing up to spend their honeymoon together, in self-isolation.
