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COVID-19 cancelled their wedding plans, so they married on a B.C. mountaintop

Ceremony was live streamed to friends and family around the world
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Brayden Boyd and Michelle Fonseca had plans for a big wedding with family in Mexico, when COVID made that impossible. Nanaimo鈥檚 West Coast Helicopter stepped in and offered to marry them on a Vancouver Island mountaintop.

Brayden Boyd and Michelle Fonseca had plans for a big wedding with both their families in Mexico this summer. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and they knew there was no way for their dream wedding to take off.

That鈥檚 when Nanaimo鈥檚 West Coast Helicopter stepped in and offered to marry them on a mountaintop.

鈥淲e were planning on eloping,鈥 Fonseca says. But when Boyd suggested a different idea, 鈥淚 was like WHAT? I could never imagine!鈥

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