A couple were forced to watch their own wedding ceremony on Skype after they were stranded in Dubai due to the volcano ash cloud that has grounded flights across Europe.
Sean Murtagh, 24, and his Austrlian wife Natalie, 30, married at a civil ceremony in Brisbane three weeks ago and had planned to hold a humanist ceremony for family and friends in the UK at the weekend.
However, with the newlyweds the couple decided to go ahead with the ceremony in the hotel’s lobby using Skype to connect with their guests at the party in Ealing, London.
Hotel staff helped ease the disappointment by laying on as much as they could at the hotel in Dubai, explained Mr Murtagh: “They have decorated the lobby of the hotel. They made us a three tier wedding cake, set up a laptop with Skype and a projector.
“It’s spellbinding the amount they have done for us. It’s been an incredible day. We were never going to forget it anyway but we certainly won’t forget it now.”
