Reilly Jennings and Amanda Wheeler threw a last-minute outdoor wedding after COVID-19 threw a wrench in their plans. Photo: Katie Kaufman-Gibbons Worried the coronavirus pandemic would dash their fall wedding plans and, more pressingly, potentially impact their health insurance, Reilly Jennings and Amanda Wheeler decided to get married last week.
Jennings: Shit hit the fan on Thursday. The gym laid off all of Amanda’s co-workers, except for her. She’s teaching online fitness classes from our living room right now for 300 people. We went down to the Marriage Bureau on Thursday afternoon and got the marriage license. They make you wait 24 hours, so we planned on going back Friday to get married.
Jennings: When I asked Katie to be a witness, she asked me what I was going to wear. I said I didn’t know. Mujica: They live ten blocks south of me. The plan was to meet at their place at 12:15 p.m. I was halfway there when I got the text from Reilly. I just stopped in my tracks and called them. They were fully dressed.
Jennings: I texted Matt at 4 p.m. and was like, “Hey, so are you ordained by the City Clerk? Will you marry us in the next 24 hours? Or, better yet, in the next 90 minutes?” Wilson: I’m ordained through the Universal Life Church. This was my fifth wedding in five years. My first out of a fourth-story window, though.
Reilly Jennings and Amanda Wheeler look up at their officiant. Photo: Katie Kaufman-Gibbons Wheeler: When we got there, I could hear music playing and there were bubbles. Then other people started blowing bubbles out their windows, too. Who even has bubbles? Henningsen: We double-parked. We put the sunroof down and started playing whatever that Bruno Mars song is about getting married. The Glee version popped up, and I was like, “We can’t do this … I don’t know what they want as a wedding song, but I know it’s not this.”Wheeler: The actual ceremony was like three minutes from start to finish. Probably like 15 from when we literally walked under the window, did the thing, and then took some pictures.
Kaufman-Gibbons: I think like this was the New York City version of all the people in Italy singing from their balconies.Mujica: We were trying to take a lot of precautions. We had hand sanitizer. Reilly and Amanda were not social distancing from each other, but the rest of us were trying to stay away.
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