Skype Weddings Are a Thing Now
You can now say your marriage “I dos” via Skype. All you need is high speed internet and voila, you’re married.
A Saudi Arabian man living in the U.S. married a young woman in the KSA via the voice-over-IP service earlier this month. The ceremony was conducted by Sheikh Fawaz Al Nafeei after he made sure that the marriage would be legal and doesn’t go against Sharia.
![saudi](https://scoopempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/saudi.jpg)
Digital proxy weddings constitute legally binding contracts in states such as Colorado, Texas, Missouri, Montana and Alabama and countries like England, India and Israel. Meaning, if you were to marry a British resident/citizen via Skype or any online communication system and you would like to live with your spouse in that country, you will be able to legally register and apply for a marriage license there.
Punam Chowdhury, an American citizen, married her Bangaladesh-based fiance Tanvir Ahmed through Skype. She went to a mosque, connected to the Internet and said her wedding vows online.
![Punam Chowdhury prays during her Skype wedding with Tanvire Ahmmed, who is in Bangladesh, at the New York Qazi Office. (Niko J. Kallianiotis/The New York Times)](https://scoopempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/skypebangladesh.jpg)
Back in 2011, a Korean couple living in California also said their vows via laptop when the groom got sick. They went ahead with the wedding with him Skyping in from his hospital room.
![Bride Helen Oh stands alone at the altar as her husband-to-be Samuel Kim watches her from his isolation ward on the jumbo-sized screen. (Via)](https://scoopempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/cali.jpg)
Another British couple also chose to marry via Skype because they were grounded in Dubai due to the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption in Iceland.
WE SAID THIS: Thank God for technology!