Long-distance relationship in Corona times
Wedding video: This Couple got married with more than 8000 kilometers distance
For unmarried in international long-distance relationships, it is during the Corona pandemic, very hard to get. An American-Argentine Couple has now solved this Problem virtually.
In times of corona pandemic, it is not easy to lead an international long distance relationship – finally, the bureaucracy of some countries makes it impossible to visit as an unmarried Couple with each other. An American and an Argentinian woman therefore had an extraordinary idea: they are the first Couple married on the video platform Zoom.
Scott Marmon, 32, from New York and Augustina Montefiori, 28, from Buenos Aires in may 2017, a Few, but since November of 2019, a long-distance relationship, since then, Montefiori again returned to their homeland. In January 2020, the US-Americans to his girlfriend then made a marriage proposal to her a life together in Argentina build – up to the Coronavirus made in March 2020 your plans. Currently it does not allow both countries to visit without a marriage certificate, while in other Parts of the world have long been exceptions for such cases. So, for example, also in Germany.
Wedding, Zoom: vows to around 8500 kilometers distance
Meanwhile, Marmon and Montefiori not have seen about ten months to live. While the prospective groom has several times to enter applications to Argentina to marry his girlfriend finally, these were rejected each Time, ironically, on the grounds that the two need a marriage certificate to get back together. So had to be quick about 8500 kilometres to be married to trouble. The Meeting App “Zoom” and a license from the U.S. state of Utah made it possible.
In a 19-hour-video call, the Couple tied the knot last Wednesday, the 28. October 2020, in the virtual presence of Relatives, friends and a U.S. judge. While Marmon celebrated the Moment alone in his apartment, accompanied the bride from her mother and a make-up artist who had previously made deal. Scott Marmon can now apply for the equivalent of 720 euros for a family visa in Argentina to be with his wife. With your “Zoom”-wedding, the two are the first bi-national married couple who has been married on two continents during the corona pandemic.
Sources: Daily Mail, Instagram