Sign of the Times: Wedding Moves From Ocean City to Their Springfield Front Porch

Joy Karsner, 39, and her fiance, Brian Barton, 44, of Springfield eloped on their front lawn on April 24, 2020. Image via Charles Fox, The Philadelphia Inquirer.

A Springfield couple who suddenly found themselves in the midst of a stay at home pandemic went ahead with their wedding, with slightly altered plans, writes Stefanie Farr for The Philadelphia Inquirer. 

Joy Karsner married Brian Barton Friday night on the front porch of their

Ballymore Road home, a ceremony they named, “Eloping in Quarantine.”

Karsner’s three daughters were in the wedding. Guests included two dozen social distancing neighbors and 100 friends and family who watched the wedding via Facebook.

DJ Neeek Nyce provided music and there was dancing on the sidewalk.

 Instead of the aisle, Karsner and her three daughters walked down the driveway to an instrumental “Penny Lane.”  The groom and his “best pooch” Maxine Tiggermush the bulldog, waited on the porch.

“At this time, we would like to honor those who could not be with us today, which is basically everyone,” she said.

It was supposed to be an Ocean City, N.J. wedding and a honeymoon in Prague, before the coronavirus.

They planned their nontraditional quarantine wedding in eight days.

Read more about this quarantine wedding here. 

 

 



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