With COVID-19 pandemic swallowing the world, people haven’t stopped celebrating love. While some people found creative ways of marrying each other, others have found more humanitarian ones. A Vasai couple won the hearts of the people in the nation by the way they married each other. Twenty-eight-year-old Eric Anton Lobo and 27-year-old Merlin tied their knot by donating 50 hospital beds and oxygen cylinders to a rural COVID-19 care centre in Satpala village on June 20th. The wedding was extraordinary and heartwarming.
“In a typical Christian wedding, around 2,000 guests attend and the event is incomplete without wine and good food. This costs a big packet. We decided to celebrate differently,” says Lobo, Hindustan Times reported. The wedding included a visit to the hospital where the beds and oxygen cylinders were donated.
The Process
The couple had initially approached local MLA Kshitij Thakur earlier in March. They went to Dr Kailas Shinde, Palghar district collector, under Thakur’s guidance. And then, with Shinde’s guidance, they got their idea who approved the special project.
“In a typical Christian wedding, around 2,000 guests attend and the event is incomplete without wine and good food. This costs a big packet. We decided to celebrate differently,” said Lobo. (Source: Hindustan Times)
Only 22 guests attended the wedding and all wore face masks and maintained social distancing. “Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, scores of people are dying and in Vasai-Virar. In the Palghar district, around 90 people have died and more than 1,500 have tested positive, so we decided to contribute our bit,” said Lobo. “We wanted to share our joy with our fellow Vasai residents by helping provide better care for patients in hospitals,” he added. (Source: Hindustan Times)
After the marriage ceremony, which saw attendance by Thakur, the couple went to the COVID care centre. There the beds had already arrived. A small inauguration took place with the couple still in their wedding clothes. (Source: Hindustan Times)
