Mid-Flight Weddings not taking off?
May 31, 2009 by Christine Gooding
Filed under Wedding Locations
A week or two ago, I featured EasyJet’s plans to hold in-flight weddings with the ceremony officiated by their pilots. While getting married mid-flight has never been a dream of mine, I am sure there are many out there who would want to get married inside an airplane.
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Budget airline easyJet will not be able to offer couples the chance to get married in the skies after a Bedfordshire council rejected the plan.
The company applied to Luton Borough Council for pilots to be authorised to officiate wedding ceremonies. But a council spokeswoman said the law did not allow a civil partnership or marriage to take place on an aircraft.
An easyJet spokesman said: “Faceless bureaucrats in windowless offices have scuppered the dreams of many.”
easyJet’s UK communications manager Andrew McConnell added: “We are of course very disappointed by this news.” The airline said it had received a number of requests from couples hoping to marry in the air and they had hoped to appeal to people looking to get married “somewhere out of the ordinary”.
A spokeswoman for the council, which is responsible for registration in the area where easyJet’s London Luton Airport headquarters is based, said: “We would be happy to consider licensing easyJet’s ground facilities at London Luton Airport.”
