A Wedding Realized Through Skype Technology

Samuel and Helen's Skype Wedding.
Photo from Signs of the Times (SOTT.net)

LOS ANGELES – A California couple was supposed to get married over the weekend but plans became different when the groom had a lung infection which landed him in the isolation ward of a hospital. The couple continued the ceremony anyway via Skype.

Samuel Kim and Helen Oh, both 27, has set their plans to get married in the southern California city of Fullerton on Saturday. Guests from as far as Korea and New York were coming.
Initially, Kim was too nervous to tell his bride that he was spitting up blood last week for fear that it would cause her grief. But he did tell her, later in the week, where the couple improvised a solution by holding the wedding ceremony via Skype’s Wed video conferencing system.

Although not the wedding the couple has dreamed of, the guests said it was inspirational, admiring the bride especially for being able to stand alone at the altar without faltering.

"He said he will make up for it, he promised me he's going to be the best husband in the world," the bride said. "He felt really terrible that he wasn't there."

Reuters reported that, “the Saturday afternoon wedding utilized five live cameramen at the couple's high-tech Korean church capturing the ceremony for guests watching on jumbo screens, and for Kim himself watching on a laptop in the hospital's isolation ward.”

Kim's hospital room was decorated with flowers that nurses bought with their own money, he said.

To make up for his absence, Kim surprised Oh with plane tickets to Europe for their honeymoon. They will visit Paris and Prague as soon as he recovers from his illness.

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Reuters. Couple overcomes groom's illness with Skype wedding (Posted on March 8 2011) Retrieved on March 12 2011 from http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/308071/couple-overcomes-grooms-illness-with-skype-wedding