Fortune Feimsterplanned her wedding to wife Jacquelyn Smith in the middle of a global pandemic — and it all happened within a matter of weeks.
During an appearance onThe Kelly Clarkson Showon Tuesday, Feimster spoke to hostKelly Clarksonabout coordinating the longtime couple’s “last minute wedding” this past fall.
“We didn’t think we were gonna be able to get married this past year with the pandemic, because we were going to have, like, a real thing,” theMindy Projectalum, 40, said. “Then in, like, September, October, we were like, ‘Let’s just get married. Like, why are we waiting?’ So we planned it in like, three weeks.”
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She continued, “We had five friends get tested [for COVID-19] and we kind of did an outdoor thing, as you see [in the picture being shown] on the beach. We ended up Zooming our families [on the day of the wedding], but I didn’t think about that in advance because you just don’t think about Zooms and weddings.”
The couple didn’t schedule a Zoom call for other loved ones to attend virtually until minutes ahead of the ceremony, Feimster revealed.
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“Ten minutes before the ceremony, I’m like, ‘Oh, we should probably Zoom our families.’ So, I’m like, frantically trying to get a Zoom link going and the internet was down,” she recalled. “So, you know, we’re like, sending it out. We’re like, ‘We hope we remembered to send it to everybody.’ We forgot a few people. … We tried.”
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Feimster and Smithannounced their engagementin January 2018 after two-and-a-half years of dating. Last October, the twosome tied the knot in Malibu, California.
“Who knows what will happen? Hopefully, marriage equality is here to stay. But we wanted to be more proactive and get married while we know we can,” she said. “It definitely got the ball rolling for us a lot faster. I mean, we were going to get married no matter what, but we just were like, ‘Why wait?’ We’ve been engaged for like two-and-a-half years.”
Feimster added, “You just don’t know what will happen when the tide shifts so significantly with the Supreme Court. You hope that they listen to the country. I mean, the majority of people support marriage equality. You want that to be the voice that guides them in that decision, but you just don’t know.”
source: people.com
