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Wedding ceremony enforces social distancing during the coronavirus outbreak

Michael Mountjoy and Allia Dhody took their "in sickness and in health" vows to another level as they got married outside Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Chestnut Hill amid the coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. On hand for the ceremony was hand sanitizer, as well as a young family member dressed in a plague mask and carrying a "plague stick" to enforce social distancing. The couple did kiss after their vows but only gave "air hugs" to the few family members who attended.

Ashwin Hager, 7, wears a plague mask while holding a six-foot plague stick before his aunt, Allia Dhody, and Michael Mountjoy get married outside Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA on March 18, 2020. Hager was using the stick to keep the few guests that attended the proper social distance.
Ashwin Hager, 7, wears a plague mask while holding a six-foot plague stick before his aunt, Allia Dhody, and Michael Mountjoy get married outside Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA on March 18, 2020. Hager was using the stick to keep the few guests that attended the proper social distance.Read moreDAVID MAIALETTI / Staff Photographer
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