Wedding with over 10,000 people narrowly called off in New York

In the United States, as in many countries around the world, the authorities ask to avoid too large gatherings. But that did not prevent the bride and groom from seeing very broad when putting together the guest list for this event. As explained NBC New York, nearly 10,000 people were expected for the Orthodox Jewish wedding, which was to take place in Williamsburg, New York, on Monday, October 19.

The media specifies that the place of the wedding was outside the areas at risk and the most supervised during this period of global pandemic. But the size of the event prompted authorities to simply call off the wedding, due to current gathering limitations. On Friday, October 17, the New York City Sheriff’s Office said the wedding could not take place, but did not get a response from those concerned.

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“You cannot have 1,000 guests at your wedding”

“We were told that this (this wedding, editor’s note) was going to take place. We investigated and found that it might be true. There was a large planned wedding that would have violated the rules on gatherings,” New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo explained at a press conference relayed by The Hill. He added a caveat for the bride and groom: “You can get married, but you can’t have 1,000 guests at your wedding. You have the same result at the end of the day, you are married. It is also cheaper ”.

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The governor is accused of racism by part of the Orthodox Jewish community after new restrictive measures, notably concerning religious gatherings, put in place to fight against the spread of the virus. According to data from the John-Hopkins University, New York State is the one that has been the most bereaved in the United States since the start of the epidemic, with more than 33,300 officially recorded deaths.

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