COVID-19 Impact | Another effect of COVID-19: Thousands of double proxy weddings
In a double-proxy marriage, a couple signs their right-of-attorney over to two stand-ins who get married for them by signing the marriage license in front of an officiant.
New York Times
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By Jesse Klein
Randy Nuñez and Sasha Nuñez-Carvalho were married in October while he was quarantined with the coronavirus in San Diego and she was deployed by the Navy, 4,000 miles away, in Europe. Nuñez-Carvalho was drinking at a bar when her fiancée, now husband, called to tell her the news.
“It was about 11:30 at night,” Nuñez-Carvalho said. “I walked up to my adviser, and I was like, ‘Hey, I’m married.’ He gave me a ginormous hug and then told everybody and we did a shot in celebration. It was weird.”