Love in lockdown: video shows bride racing to meet groom trapped by coronavirus restrictions to get married on wedding day
- Bride learned her husband-to-be was trapped by a coronavirus lockdown on their wedding day
- She quickly raced to the compound where he lives so they could still tie the knot on their special day
Instead of waiting for the groom to pick her up at her home, as is customary in mainland China, a bride dressed in red hurried to the groom’s home, carrying her bridal necessities on her way to get married to her man stuck in lockdown.
On March 21, the video of a special wedding day under epidemic lockdown went viral on Weibo with over 280 million views.
The bride, Liu Chang, and groom, Jia Shihan, are from Tangshan in northern China’s Hebei province, and their wedding was scheduled for March 19.
Jia was supposed to be at Liu’s house at 6am to pick her up. However, when Liu awoke in the early morning, she received a phone call from Jia, who told her that his housing complex was closed and that he couldn’t leave due to the epidemic lockdown.
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Bride in China rushes to marry at groom’s flat before lockdown
After hanging up the phone, Liu hurriedly packed her wedding gowns, bridal shoes, and other necessities and carried them all the way to the groom’s house to marry.
“My expectation for having the ceremony today was low, but the epidemic prevention staff said I can enter if I do not go out again; I don’t know what the wedding would be like, but I need to go now,” Liu said in a video she shared on the day on Douyin.