- I'm stressed out.
Six months until my wedding,
and there's been an outbreak of a virus.
The virus is called COVID-19.
Sounds so ridiculous to even be reporting this,
but it's true and I wanna be able to look back and
remember what happened.
The plan was to get married in Ojai.
Both of our families are from the east coast.
So we were gonna bring everyone in for the weekend.
And we rented a big house there where we could stay,
and some of our family could stay.
And we were gonna bring in a caterer
and a DJ, the whole nine yards.
- It might be a little bit more expensive
to book this place, but you might save.
- Brad could get ready over here.
- Yeah. - Groom gets ready over here.
- [Mother] You wanna turn around?
- [Georgia] My mom took me dress shopping.
We picked out this beautiful dress.
We had basically planned the whole thing.
- [Mother] Keep walking.
- Oh sorry, I forgot
you were taking a video.
- It's Friday the 13th, which makes sense,
'cause it feels very apocalyptic around here.
I am going through our pantry
to make sure we have everything we need,
'cause that's what they're telling you to do.
If you had to you place a bet right now on whether
or not we're gonna cancel the wedding, what would you say?
- [Mike] I'm in the shower!
Card's about to run out.
- I don't know, it feels kinda cold to just be talking
about the money part of it, but I guess I'm not just talking
about the money part of it, it's all connected.
There's just a lot wrapped up into it.
And at this point, I just wanna be done
with the fucking thing, to be frank.
- [Georgia] And you think you're gonna be relieved?
- Yes, I feel like we talk about the wedding
for hours, every single day and we--
- [Georgia] That is not true!
- Hey.
In recent months, as we've led up to the event,
it's one of the biggest things that we talk about.
It's true, it's not a diss, it's not anything.
It's just true.
And so I'm excited to...
- [Georgia] Make a documentary about it.
- Yeah, make a doc, yeah.
- I don't feel like we spent as much time talking
about it as you think we did,
but I'm ready to talk about it less.
I agree with you.
I never wanted to spend all my time wedding planning
and spending all this money for one day.
- If you were writing the movie version of this,
you'd be like, "Shit's pretty crazy right now.
"But you know what, our wedding is one month.
"What's the worst that could happen?"
- [Georgia] Are you stressing eating?
- No, but I'm just eating, eating.
- It's only like day two isolation,
like what is gonna happen?
This is literally only the beginning.
Right?
- [Mike] I don't think we're gonna be here very long.
- Really?
- [Mike] Yeah, I think it's like--
- Cut to edit, day 45.
Literally a week ago, this was like a joke.
Oh yeah, the wedding gets canceled 'cause of COVID.
France is shut down, Spain is shut down, Italy is shut down.
- [Mike] When were you supposed to pick up your dress?
- I'm supposed to pick it up, like it got there,
but I don't even wanna pick it up.
It seems so silly now, you know?
We've never had a wedding before.
So everything's like all hypothetical, you know?
And so in some ways, you're just missing the idea
of something.
- [Mike] Well, it could still happen.
- Yeah, could still happen.
Could still happen.
This is faith, you know?
Just believing that shit's gonna be okay.
- But this is an extraordinary thing.
All restaurants and bars are only able to deliver
and take out, I mean that's in New York City.
That's extraordinary.
- It's extraordinary and I think a lot of people
who live there, this will be the first time they've
ever experienced something like this
and social distancing measures, you've got to do them early.
- The CDC says all gatherings of 50 people
or more need to be canceled or postponed.
That includes weddings.
- It's off, there's just no more grappling with it.
- [Georgia Voiceover] People were dying.
We couldn't put everybody we love at risk.
- A statewide order for people to stay at home.
- [Georgia Voiceover] The wedding always came second
to the health and safety of the people that we love
and the people that those people love.
- Wedding cancellation?
How about just, "It's off"?
- [Georgia] What about just like, "Our upcoming wedding"
or "A note about our wedding."
- A note about our wedding.
- Just be like, "Corona." - "Wedding, dot dot dot"?
- [Georgia] No, what about "The corona"...
- "The corona call off"?
"COVID cancellation"?
- [Georgia] Just be like, "COVID-19,
"an update about the wedding."
"Wedding update," perfect.
"Wedding update," that's it.
- COVID update?
- [Georgia] No, just wedding update.
- [Mike] Look at this.
- [Georgia] Yeah.
To the people we love the most,
we are so sad and disappointed to let you know
that we are canceling our wedding celebration in Ojai.
- It's just an idea, I'm not saying we do this or anything,
but if we're going to send an email blast
to all of our people we were inviting,
that at this time on this day,
we're gonna get married on Zoom.
So a couple of weeks after we canceled the wedding,
you ran in my office with your phone
on this LA Times article of people getting married
at the Honda Center in Anaheim.
And we were like, "Let's do it,
"let's go get married of the Honda Center."
What we ended up coming to was,
we'd go do the legal ceremony down in Orange County
and then come back to the house and do a Zoom toasts thing.
- Of course I wanna do a Zoom, but like,
I don't wanna organize a Zoom, you know?
I already organized a wedding and I feel like it's easy
to look on the bright side and be positive.
And of course I am, but it's just sad.
It's just really sad this week, you know?
- [Mike] Yeah.
- Because our parents won't be here and like...
You know what I mean?
It's just sad.
- [Mike] You're too far from the beginning
and you can't really see the end either.
- Yeah, we're just like, this is just gonna go
on and on and on, and you're just like, "Whoa."
It starts to make everything just seem strange
and kind of...
You're like, "What the fuck?"
You know? - Yeah.
Anything else you wanna add?
- No.
- [Mike] Any upside to this?
- Of course, there's always an upside.
- [Mike] What's the upside?
- It like...
I don't know.
I don't know if I know the upside fully yet.
I mean, I know there's an upside.
It like makes you realize what's important
and blah, blah, blah, but I don't know if that's it totally.
I kinda think like some situations,
maybe, just suck a little bit.
- [Mike] Yeah.
- You know?
And you're just learning how to deal
with bad situations is the upside.
- [Mike] Fair enough.
- Yeah.
I think I'm gonna feel relieved that the pressure's over.
Like I just feel like there's a lot
of pressure around getting married.
- I feel married, already.
I don't think it's gonna feel different when we're married.
I think we're going to continue to talk
about all the things we're talking about doing now,
and eating good food and watching movies
that Georgia falls asleep 10 minutes into.
And I will probably still have a basket
of clothes sitting next to the bed that I didn't put away.
- [Clerk] So the witness information
that you provided is Thomas Banks.
Is he gonna be the one available that day, as well?
- [Mike And Georgia] Yeah.
- [Clerk] Good, he didn't back down?
- No, not yet. - Nope.
- [Clerk] Okay, that's good 'cause again,
we won't be able to change it if someone else were to come.
So I wanna make sure.
- So if Thomas Banks doesn't come, we can't get married.
- [Clerk] No, only 'cause we in a ticket booth.
So unfortunately-- - He'll be there.
- He'll be there.
- Yeah. - Worse case scenario, yeah.
Yeah, you can guilt him to it.
We're only accepting a check or money order.
So your total for the license and ceremony would be a total
of $89 and you guys will be officially married by the end
of that appointment time. - Woo!
- Awesome.
- So you can let your guests know that, as well.
Your witness, if he's not already carpooling
with you guys, at least, so he could stay in his car.
You guys can come separate.
- Perfect. - Yeah,
we're quarantining from him.
He doesn't have COVID.
- Okay. - Mike, stop.
Okay. - You guys are all set.
- Thank you so much.
- Thank you, too. - Thank you so much.
- We're so excited.
- [Clerk] You're welcome, congratulations.
- Thank you. - Thank you so much.
- [Clerk] And if you have questions, feel free to call us.
If not, see you then.
- Okay, perfect. - All right, great.
- See you then. - Thank you so much.
- Thank you.
- All right.
- Bye. - You're welcome, take care.
- You too. - Bye.
- You guys are the first people we've seen,
I think, in like...
- You too, I mean you're the first friend.
- [Relative] What's Honda Center, is a mass elopement?
- Yeah, basically.
- [Mike] It's where the it's where the Anaheim Ducks play.
- Okay.
So everything, everything is what we just--
- [Georgia] Aww.
- [Mike] Aww.
- I know, it's so sweet, right?
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, it's so gorgeous!
Look at that.
- [Male Friend] Who needs a veil,
when you've got a bridal mask?
Oh, my God!
This is like the new fashion.
Thank you so much, this is so sweet.
Is it silk?
- [Male Friend] Italian silk.
- [Female Friend] It's silk I brought back from Italy.
- Oh my God. - And I just lined it
with cotton so it's more comfortable, and then--
- You did such a god job, and the blue.
- Yeah and I did a little blue thread.
- My mom's dress.
Unboxing video.
My mom sent me her old dress that she actually wore,
when she married my dad because my dress got stuck
at the place where we bought it.
It's pretty, right?
All right, it's the morning of our wedding.
I feel excited.
I am so ready to be married.
Looking good!
They packed up everything.
Champagne, my mask, tripod, makeup remover, water.
- Let's get married.
They just got hitched, look at that.
Look how fast they're outta here.
- Tell me where we are, what's happening today?
- Gettin' married in the parking lot
of the Honda Center in Anaheim, California!
Right according to plan.
Woo!
- [Teller] Yeah, 23, just be careful of the little ledge.
It might poke through the license.
- Okay. - So 23.
- [Georgia] My old name, right?
- [Teller] Old name.
We are gathered here, for the purpose
of uniting Michael and Georgia in matrimony.
Michael, do you take Georgia
to be your lawfully wedded spouse?
I do.
- [Teller] Georgia, do you promise to love and comfort him?
- I do.
- [Teller] To honor him and keep him
in sickness and in health?
- I do.
- [Teller] Then with the authority vested in me,
as Deputy Commissioner of Marriage for the county of Orange,
I now pronounce this couple united in marriage,
under the law, in the state of California.
You may now kiss the bride.
- Yeah, we did it! - Woo!
- Yes.
Come on, now.
Oo.
- Yay. - I love you guys.
I love you! - Love you, too.
Congratulations. - I love you, too.
- [Male Friend] Congratulations.
- Thank you.
- We are gathered here and gathered there,
today, to celebrate the marriage
of Mike Bernstein and Georgia Koch.
We know that this celebration is not just about today,
but it's about the years they've spent together,
and the lifetime of memories that they're gonna make.
So I wanna start off by asking the bride and groom
to take a moment and remember each step
of their journey together that's led them here,
to think each day that seemed ordinary, at the time.
And how all of these days have now combined
into something extraordinary.
And to fall in love is to look in someone's eyes
and decide that you're gonna share everything with them.
Your past, your present, your future, your family,
and the way you see the world.
And even when you've found the perfect person, it's really,
really hard to do this because we're raised as individuals.
And then suddenly, you fall in love and you realize
that you care more about what someone else wants
and feels than you do about what you yourself want and feel.
As many people know, Mike and Georgia met
while working together on a show called The Science of Love.
- My name's Georgia.
I'm the channel manager here, at SoulPancake.
I am here with Mike and Julian from Science of Love.
- They met while being inspired
and challenged by each other's ideas.
And as you can see, that collaboration is still going,
to this day.
So I think I speak for everyone here when I say to the bride
and groom, "We love you, and we thank you
"for letting us share this moment that means so much."
♪ We went to the chapel and we ♪
♪ We got married ♪
Are you ready?
- Yeah, I'm ready.
- [Jasmynn] All right.
- I knew for sure I wanted to keep the date,
just because that was gonna be our three year anniversary.
I just didn't wanna not do it because
of the situation that was going on.