--- title: Couple Holds Wedding in Animal Crossing Due To Coronavirus description: A couple got hitched in Animal Crossing: New Horizons when their wedding was cancelled due to the coronavirus. canonical: https://time.com/5808903/wedding-animal-crossing-coronavirus/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-03-24T20:38:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:24.466Z og:title: This Couple Held a 'Wedding' in Animal Crossing After Coronavirus Led Them to Cancel og:description: The game provided a creative solution to the problem og:url: https://time.com/5808903/wedding-animal-crossing-coronavirus/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc409a23a9a723248/698a0bf4929fad9495bf5e33/Wedding-Animal-Crossing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2121 og:image:height: 1193 og:image:alt: Bouquet of white flowers og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Couple Held a 'Wedding' in Animal Crossing After Coronavirus Led Them to Cancel twitter:description: The game provided a creative solution to the problem twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc409a23a9a723248/698a0bf4929fad9495bf5e33/Wedding-Animal-Crossing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Couple Held a 'Wedding' in Animal Crossing After Coronavirus Led Them to Cancel > Sponsored content. 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Bouquet made only of white flowers.Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 24, 2020 8:38 PM UTC When the spread of the [coronavirus](https://time.com/5804786/coronavirus-issue/) forced a couple to cancel their wedding ceremony, the groom-to-be decided that the show must go on. On Sunday, he threw his fiancée a surprise “wedding” inside the Nintendo game, [_Animal Crossing: New Horizons_](https://time.com/5804599/animal-crossing-new-horizons-review/). “My fiance and I had to cancel our upcoming wedding due to [Covid-19](https://time.com/5805368/will-coronavirus-go-away-world-health-organization/), so our best friends gave us a surprise animal crossing wedding instead,” a user named Ashmush [shared in a post on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalCrossing/comments/fnbgzd/my%5Ffiance%5Fand%5Fi%5Fhad%5Fto%5Fcancel%5Four%5Fupcoming/). The couple, identified as Sharmin Asha and Nazmul Ahmed [by _Business Insider_](https://www.insider.com/animal-crossing-wedding-coronavirus-social-distancing-2020-3), were set to marry next month, but due to the ongoing pandemic they were forced to cancel it, undoubtedly a difficult move for any couple. And like many others canceling events, that wasn’t the only big event that Asha was missing out on due to the coronavirus. “I’m graduating from med school and not getting a graduation,” she [wrote in a comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalCrossing/comments/fnbgzd/my%5Ffiance%5Fand%5Fi%5Fhad%5Fto%5Fcancel%5Four%5Fupcoming/fl8mu6a/) on Reddit. “I was feeling pretty down about missing out on my milestones.” To help cheer up Asha, Ahmed teamed up with some friends and planned a surprise digital “wedding” on his virtual island inside the game. To pull off the surprise, Ahmed told _Business Insider_ that he invited Asha over to his island to “gather resources” as part of the game. When she arrived, digital versions of their friends were already there to greet her. He gave her avatar a dress to wear and roses to hold, everything a bride-to-be could want in the digital world. The surprise worked. “This made me so happy,” Asha [wrote](https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalCrossing/comments/fnbgzd/my%5Ffiance%5Fand%5Fi%5Fhad%5Fto%5Fcancel%5Four%5Fupcoming/fl8mu6a/) on Reddit. “I don’t even have the words to describe how much it meant to me.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5808903/wedding-animal-crossing-coronavirus/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5808903/wedding-animal-crossing-coronavirus/"},"headline":"This Couple Held a 'Wedding' in Animal Crossing After Coronavirus Led Them to Cancel","datePublished":"2020-03-24T20:38:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:24.466Z","description":"Animal Crossing provided a creative solution to the problem.","url":"https://time.com/5808903/wedding-animal-crossing-coronavirus/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Brief","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc409a23a9a723248/698a0bf4929fad9495bf5e33/Wedding-Animal-Crossing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc409a23a9a723248/698a0bf4929fad9495bf5e33/Wedding-Animal-Crossing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bouquet of white flowers","caption":"Bouquet of white flowers","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5808903/wedding-animal-crossing-coronavirus/","name":"This Couple Held a 'Wedding' in Animal Crossing After Coronavirus Led Them to Cancel"}}]}] ```