15 Apr Virtual Weddings and Covid-19
With the entire world impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, it’s no surprise many wedding ceremonies have gotten postponed. However, around the globe, some couples are still going on with their wedding events, knowing fully well the disadvantages they face with family and friends unable to attend because of the global pandemic.
How they go about it is our major interest. You must have heard of virtual wedding or better still, call it online wedding. It was never a popular option especially in our dear nation and African continent. But, with recent developments, we are faced with hard choices.
The pandemic have succeeded in doing many things, making your loved ones stay away from your wedding. But one thing coronavirus cannot do is that it cannot quarantine the support and the love a couple will have from their friends and their family and that would be clearly evident as many people would logged on to watch your virtual wedding, call it the first of it’s kind in Nigeria or Africa.
So what are you still waiting for? There are lots of video apps that allows you to stream life. Couples who are really ready to step up should contact their events planners, who would make arrangements for the important things during this pandemic.
What Do You Need For Virtual Wedding?
1. Event planner who will oversee the planning of the events, arrangements of the few guests available and possibly entertain the few guests available.
2. Cameraman to have a record of the wedding event.
3. Internet to to go live on Facebook page, zoom and whatever video app one decides to use.
Virtual weddings is going trend more in the foreseeable future, people will soon start buying the idea. Maybe someone is waiting for someone to start it first. That first person could be you.
Everyone is having a rethink of how to do things, even the stereotypical ones. A church minister in South America who conducted a virtual or online wedding recently, said he had never imagined he would marry a couple this way but was happy to do it during this time of readjustment.
“This is actually the first time we’ve done something like this for a wedding. Obviously, I’m sure I’m not the only pastor, minister that’s had to rethink how to do ministry right now and it’s been a challenge,” said Childress.
Like Children’s has rightly posited, it is a time of readjustment. Move away from your normal belief and do what is needful straight away.
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