Coronavirus forced them to rethink their wedding. Then a FedEx driver saved the day
A FedEx driver is being credited with saving a North Carolina couple’s beach wedding when he showed up in the final seconds with a package containing the groom’s wedding band.
Photographer Amy Fowler Shores of Surf City recorded the moment when the driver maintained safe social distancing as he handed off the package to the anxious bride.
Savannah Kulenic and Dylan Perkins of Raleigh had planned an elaborate Hawaiian wedding, honeymoon and cruise, but they were forced to cancel everything due to the coronavirus outbreak, Shores explained in a Facebook post.
“Everything fell apart,” the bride Savannah Perkins told WNCN. “I was very determined to get married April 10, very determined.”
Her determination resulted in a cobbled-together and scaled-down “last minute ceremony” at a friend’s beach house in Surf City, with five people in attendance, Shores posted.
“The bride was waiting on the groom’s wedding band that was to be delivered by the time of the ceremony,” Shores wrote on Facebook.
“We had to leave a note on the front door to ask if the delivery person would bring the ring down to the beach. We began the ceremony on the beach and at the end ... my friend, Brandy, yelled: ‘Look, it’s the FED EX man!’ This sweet man came running down the sand waving the package. It was amazing!”
Shores joked the moment “should be a FedEx commercial.”
In a Wednesday update, she said FedEx had, in fact, contacted her and planned to share the story.
WNCN identified the driver as Joe Engel, who told the station he was happy not to “ruin it” by being late.
Weddings, graduations and countless other key ceremonies have been canceled across the nation in recent weeks as the coronavirus has infected more than 2 million and killed 138,000 globally as of Thursday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
This story was originally published April 16, 2020 at 4:46 AM with the headline "Coronavirus forced them to rethink their wedding. Then a FedEx driver saved the day."