Drive-through weddings come to Adelaide
An Adelaide wedding celebrant is making sure local couples can still enjoy their big day while adhering to social distancing rules - even if it means staying in the car.
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Couples who still want to marry during the coronavirus pandemic now have a new option – and they don’t even have to leave their car.
With just five people – including the bride and groom – now permitted at a wedding, many couples thought cancelling their big day was the only option.
But Kingswood wedding celebrant Lauren Khabbaz has a solution – drive-through weddings.
I Do Drive Thru allows couples to be legally married from the socially-distant comfort of a car while their witnesses watch on from another car.
The celebrant passes paperwork in between the two cars and the ceremony can be live-streamed to family and friends.
“It’s a really novel idea. It’s something that rather than having that basic legal elopement it gives it a little bit more fun and pizzazz in quite a difficult time,” Mrs Khabbaz says.
“We’re here for love and legals and it’s a way to bring a sense of real fun and difference to that in this time.”
Couples can elect to be married at their own home or at various locations across Adelaide, including Windy Point Lookout, Aldinga Beach or by the painted walls of Port Adelaide.
South Australia is just the second state to welcome I Do Drive Thru, following its launch in Melbourne last week.
“Getting married in this time of restriction is still an essential service because we don’t want complications around medical decisions, visa applications, wills and estates,” Mrs Khabbaz says.
“That’s why people still being able to get married now is so important and I think the drive- through aspect just gives it a fresh take in a hard time.
“We only launched at 7am this morning so we’re yet to have a confirmed booking but I can imagine in two days’ time if you were to ask me that there will be a lot going on.”