The symbolic mass celebration was held under the clear New York sky
A giant “compensation” wedding.. that repairs what was spoiled by “Corona”
The celebration included married couples who renewed the covenant... and betrothed.
AFP
About 500 couples celebrated a symbolic group wedding, Sunday, under the clear New York sky, which included newlyweds, who were engaged, and engaged, in an atmosphere of joy in an effort to get out of the depression of the health crisis.
Women put wreaths of flowers on their heads and wore white, whether wedding dresses or out-of-the-ordinary outfits. Couples, many of whom had previously held their wedding, and decided to celebrate it again, walked in a huge procession before announcing their marriage.
The husbands were affected, and some of them could not stop crying under the weight of the moment.
“We were due to celebrate our engagement on March 24, 2020 in Hawaii, but of course everything was canceled due to the pandemic,” said Erica Hackman, wearing a wedding dress while participating with her husband, Richard, in the celebration, in Damrush Park, at the bottom of the high-rise buildings in Manhattan.
Erica, 35, said that they held their wedding the following summer, "on the roof of a building, with the participation of the nearby family, we were less than 20 people and we all wore masks."
Her partner Richard, 37, added: "It was a really small wedding.
Therefore, it is very important today that we come and celebrate this event with others who have experienced the same.”
The Lincoln Center, the New York cultural organization organizing the event, presented the mass wedding as "compensation" for the husbands of their "Covid-19" teams or spoiled their wedding.
But the ceremony was open to all who wished to join it in a city that suffered greatly from the pandemic in the spring of 2020, when life came to a halt and scenes of a desolate Times Square spread across the world, and of hastily erected morgues to receive the bodies of the victims of the epidemic.
Some of the couples were young, some were older, like Esther Frisner Stutzman and Walter Stutzmann, who had been married since 1974. "He promised me a trip to Paris," she says happily.
Among the revelers was Anne-Marie Colon, 59, who attended carrying a picture of her fiancé Louis Stephen (the love of her life), a Bronx neighborhood professor who died in April 2020 as a result of being infected with "Covid-19".
"We were due to get married in Europe," she said, smiling. "It occurred to me that coming here would be a wonderful celebration of the life we spent together for 11 years."
The ceremony was open to anyone who would like to join it in a city that suffered greatly from the pandemic in the spring of 2020, when life came to a standstill.
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