Weddings are on again in Yolo County. Here’s what that looks like during coronavirus

After a more than a month, Yolo County is marrying people again.

The Clerk-Recorder Office stopped issuing marriage licenses and performing ceremonies when the county issued its shelter-in-place order March 18 to slow the spread of the coronavirus. It started the process of reopening April 20.

“We feel honored to be the first ceremony in Yolo County during the outbreak,” said Juan Gutierrez Aguilar, 28, who married Lissie Abril Guzman, 28, of Davis, on April 23.

“This is a different wedding. We have all of our family on the screen and laptop in Google Hangouts – 30 people online watching us, sharing all the happiness we are experiencing,” he said.

The office wrote in a news release that it reopened the service in response to couples who needed a marriage license to do things like enroll a spouse in a health plan or add them to the title of a home – both actions that had urgency in the pandemic.

The ceremonies are being performed on a limited basis, and are open only to couples where one member is a county resident, under a new process that adheres to physical distance guidelines.