A gay couple’s Pride Month wedding was cancelled by coronavirus. Until Drag Race icon Michelle Visage stepped in
Michelle Visage married a gay Scottish couple over video call. (BBC)
Michelle Visage rescued a gay couple’s wedding after it was cancelled by coronavirus, officiating their ceremony over video call during Pride Month.
Alan Lambie and Finlay Wilson got engaged last summer, during a Pride trip to Washington DC, and had spent months planning a June wedding – until coronavirus happened.
The pandemic put their special day on hold, but at the last minute Michelle Visage intervened.
The Drag Race icon had put out a call looking for couples whose weddings had been scuppered, and Alan and Finlay got in touch thinking little of it.
Shortly after, they received a call from the producers of her BBC Three lockdown show, How’s Your Head, Hun?, telling them they had 36 hours to get their home ready for a one-of-a-kind ceremony.
Michelle Visage rescues gay wedding.
Michelle Visage declared them husband and husband over video call from her LA garden, which her husband had decked out in a rainbow balloon arch and Pride flags, resplendent in a leopard print officiant’s robe.
Alan and Finlay exchanged their vows in their Dundee garden, which neighbours had helped deck out (socially-distanced, of course).
Friends and families dialled in through Zoom while neighbours peered over fences. Finlay’s brother, a photographer, was able to join them, as at the time restrictions allowed for one person to visit a household outdoors.
Though it wasn’t what they had originally envisioned, the newlywed husbands said they felt lucky to have had such a unique ceremony.
“We had given up because we’d passed the point where we should have been organising the wedding and were at the point where we would have had to delay it to the following year to get it on the same day,” Finlay said, according to the Daily Record.
“So to get the chance to get married within seven days of our original wedding day was really amazing.
“And our street showed so much support. They brought us flowers and swept the road and were looking over garden walls on ladders and throwing petals. It was really lovely.”
Alan added: “It gave us all something to dress up for. Everyone has been in jogging bottoms for three months.”
How’s Your Head, Hun? is streaming on BBC iPlayer now.
