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Kate and Charles Peck were scheduled to get married in late May in Kate’s hometown of Sidney.

As the COVID-19 pandemic progressed, though, it soon became clear that wasn’t going to happen.

“When they kind of started shutting all the states down, we knew it was a possibility,” Kate said. “My parents are teachers in Sidney and when they had announced school had been cancelled for the rest of the year, that’s when me made that determination.”

The situation may have put an in-person ceremony on hold, but it wasn’t going to stop their wedding all together. The two planned a virtual wedding to be broadcast on Facebook. They put it together in two days.

“We applied for our marriage license on Sunday, and then decided the time on Monday and on Tuesday we were married,” Kate said.

It also seemed fitting for a couple that had met online to have their wedding online.

The couple met on the dating app Tinder.

Kate and Charles went on their first date in January 2018. After falling out of contact, they reconnected 10 months later – and hadn’t missed a beat.

“We went out on Halloween and had a very very good time,” Charles said. “We picked up as if there was no time in between.”

And now two years later, even under strange circumstances, the two are married, and at the ceremony, family and friends may have not been present, but the emotions were.

“The ceremony, I thought, wasn’t going to be as sweet as it was because it was online,” Kate said. “I figured we would just say yes I do, yes I do, we’re married, but I think we both cried so it was very sweet.”

The family and friends will still have a chance to congratulate the couple when they celebrate in person in September.