A COUPLE have exchanged vows through a window after the bride contracted Covid-19 just days before her wedding day.
Lauren and Patrick Delgado, a couple from California, were planning and looking forward to their big day on November 20 after getting engaged back in 2019.
But their original plans suddenly were under threat when Lauren, 29, started to feel sick.
She told Fox TV Stations: “I called him [husband] crying hysterically because he knew I wasn’t feeling the best, but he said you’re probably just nervous — it’s probably all the nerves — let’s wait until you get results back.
“I was hoping it was just a cold or something, but my symptoms kept getting worse, and I was like it has to be Covid.”
Disaster struck, however, when just days before her wedding, Lauren tested positive for coronavirus.
Lauren said: “I was really upset, just because we had been planning for so long.”
We literally had to change everything… our guest list went from 175 to 10
Mrs Lauren Delgado
Having changed their venue three times, and with a marriage license set to expire the day after their ceremony, the couple had to hatch a plan to tie the knot.
So they chose to wed under virus quarantine at the bride’s mother’s home in Ontario, CA.
Lauren said: “That day, I had to get ready by myself because I was in quarantine.
“I did not wear my original dress.”
Patrick Delgado, 27, stood socially-distanced outside and below Lauren’s window to exchange vows during the 30-minute ceremony.
Wedding photographer Jessica Jackson said it was the most 2020 wedding she had ever shot.
She said: “I’m so happy that Patrick and Lauren were able to find a creative way to still get married, and it was absolutely stunning.
“In the traditional sense, their wedding still had vows, a ring exchange, and all the elements that most weddings have.
“But they demonstrated the ‘through sickness or health’ vow beautifully by choosing to still get married despite the circumstances.”
Lauren, a health worker, said she was still facing lingering symptoms from the virus and was still in the recovery process.
She warned: “It is definitely not like the flu. It really puts a toll on you.”
The happily married couple plans to hopefully have a dream wedding party with guests.
