Rome, the “solo” wedding, without guests and without flowers

A married couple in the church of San Salvatore in Lauro, in Rome. It’s their wedding day: they are at the altar, in front of the priest who will declare them wife and husband. She is wearing the traditional white dress, he is wearing a dark suit. In the first row of desks, the bride’s two witnesses and the groom’s two. Stop. There are no other guests, there are no flowers.

It was she who immortalized the singular “solo” wedding Loredana Pronio, parliamentary collaborator and former delegate for animal welfare of the former Grillina mayor Virginia Raggi, who posted two photos of the wedding on Facebook. Her post has already gone viral. «I thought I had seen, I’m not saying everything, but enough. And instead this morning I stopped by my parish. It’s my daily ritual. I enter and notice two young men at the altar. I look carefully and see two spouses!», writes Pronio.

«These two guys were getting married in a completely empty church! No relatives, no friends. Only two pseudo photographers who perhaps also acted as witnesses to him. I approached the altar and noticed that she is pregnant. And then I thought that that married couple wasn’t alone. The two boys were in good company. The best ever. Have a good life to all three.” Would you get married even without flowers, friends and relatives?

And if, among those who comment, someone believes that it is a “sad” marriage, others understand and support the choice of the spouses: “Have a good life! Better alone than with snake relatives”, and again: “Maybe they don’t need the corollary and are happy that way».