90-year old Alvin Lee and 85 year old Dorothy Driskell planned to get married in a big ceremony this spring, but when the coronavirus pandemic derailed their plans, they got creative — and decided to hold a wedding via Zoom.
Alvin lost his wife, Rachel, 11 years ago, and Dorothy lost her husband two years ago but in 2019, they met each other at a retreat center in New York and found love again.
Alvin lives in Germantown and Dorothy is from about two hours away in Westerville.
Since social distancing guidelines and stay-at-home orders are preventing people in different households from seeing each other, Lee's family threw him a 90th birthday party and "It sparked their idea to then hold a Zoom wedding," Alvin's granddaughter Jennifer Whitaker said.
The wedding took place at Alvin's home on Friday with twenty family members and friends joining the Zoom call with it being the pastor's first zoom wedding.