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Tying the knot above the clouds...This Madurai couple gets married on a flight: Video goes viral!

By alagu, 24 May, 2021
Tamilnadu, COVID-19, Lockdown

The COVID-19 lockdown is opening up doors for never-explored events in everyone's life. From incessant home confinement to the first-of-its-kind experiences, we are bracing up a new normal to drive ahead and to ensure that the pandemic won't dominate the lives, though it remains as a strain. The lockdown has been affecting the typical human behaviour and lifestyles with strict restrictions even for auspicious occasions like marriages. Several betrothal couples have been pushed to conduct weddings by trimming the list of visitors and cutting off some of the relatives from the ceremony owing to the government's restrictions. 

Amid such challenges, a Madurai couple has tied the knot above the clouds by barring the obstacles. They got married onboard a flight in the presence of their relatives and disembarked the plane by making their wedding memorable and a precedent of unseen explorations during the lockdown. The wedding has become a talk of the town as it has risen many eyebrows on how the ceremony was executed. 

According to reports, Rakesh and Dakshina are residents of Madurai, and while weddings in typical fashion in Tamil Nadu would have fewer guests owing to the COVID-19 restrictions, the couple had decided to make the ceremony extraordinary. They had decided to rent the plane for two hours and they successfully tied the knot onboard Spicejet from Bangalore to Madurai on Sunday in the presence of 160 people. 

They had decided to keep COVID-19 off from the auspicious ceremony and they tied the knot above the clouds. The reports say that they tied the knot exactly when their aircraft hovered over the Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple and the video of their wedding ceremony has been going viral on social media by garnering thousands of views. 

The relatives who were on board the flight had cleared the RT-PCR test before boarding as per the protocol and after marrying above the clouds, the couple had hosted a small reception at a hotel in the city. Tamil Nadu had witnessed a pre-COVID-world on Sunday as the people had thronged to the shops to stock up the essentials as the state will enter the complete lockdown with no relaxations from Monday for a week. 

The full relaxation on Sunday had seen several weddings across the state as the families had decided to make use of the relaxation for arranging marriages for their children as the state has no surety on when the restrictions will get eased. Most of the weddings were non-lavish and followed COVID-19 protocols by restricting the larger crowds. It must be noted that the lockdown both in the first wave and second wave of the pandemic had presented unique events and changing lifestyles. 

While the Madurai couple tied the knot above the clouds, one Tamil Nady couple had last year got married under the water and there were several weddings that held at the borders of two adjacent states owing to the restrictions of the governments in entering the respective states of the couple. Though such weddings gave different shades to the typical culture, they were welcomed by several people and the couples have earned overwhelming wishes from across and beyond the borders to begin their lives amid the lockdown. 

Tamil Nadu has on Monday entered the fresh phase of the lockdown that will stay in place till May 31. The state government has on Saturday extended the lockdown with no relaxations across the state to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. On Sunday, Tamil Nadu has reported 35,483 fresh COVID-19 cases, 25,196 discharges, and 422 deaths. Overall, Tamil Nadu has recorded 18,42,344 cases so far as of Sunday of which 2,94,143 are active, 15,27,733 have been discharged, and 20,468 people had succumbed to the viral infection. 

 

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