A Virgin Australia flight from Melbourne to Sydney has played host to the airline\u2019s first-ever mid-air wedding today, for Melbourne couple, Elaine Tiong and Luke Serdar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stunned passengers, onboard flight VA841, looked on as Elaine walked down the aircraft aisle wearing a striking white ensemble, before Australian actress, singer and now well-known wedding celebrant, Tottie Goldsmith, solemnised the nuptials, with the couple officially tying the knot at 40,000 feet, as the aircraft flew over Canberra in the ACT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dubbed, a Wedding in the Sky, Elaine, 35, a stylist, and Luke, 36, an electrician, who hail from Prahran in Melbourne\u2019s inner eastern suburbs, said they were looking for an unconventional wedding without the fuss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe actually had planned to marry onboard a Virgin Australia flight on Valentine\u2019s Day, but we had to postpone when the Victorian lockdown came into play just 24-hours before the big day, so after a false start, we couldn\u2019t be happier to finally tie the knot today,\u201d said Luke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a result of strict COVID-19 regulations, the couple first kissed as husband and wife upon disembarkation of the aircraft in Sydney, where they were finally able to remove their face masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Virgin Australia is well-known for their mid-air celebrations. From onboard marriage proposals, to Australia\u2019s first-ever fashion show on a passenger flight, to achieving a Guinness World Record with the Black Eyes Peas performing at 41,000 feet, and now a Wedding in the Sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Virgin Australia flight from Melbourne to Sydney has played host to the airline\u2019s first-ever mid-air wedding today, for Melbourne couple, Elaine Tiong and Luke Serdar.<\/p>\n
Stunned passengers, onboard flight VA841, looked on as Elaine walked down the aircraft aisle wearing a striking white ensemble, before Australian actress, singer and now well-known wedding celebrant, Tottie Goldsmith, solemnised the nuptials, with the couple officially tying the knot at 40,000 feet, as the aircraft flew over Canberra in the ACT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10174,797,4813,3965,9181,89,5637,13618,8222,10701,10700,2203,5500,5676,10169,10195,10171,868,10182,1103],"tags":[13910,4600,464,420,118,914,1480,876,160,3013,4564,7351,10634,9550,4295,13918,2514,5796,660,13911,13916,13903,2933,13914,11133,7555,13904,3577,13915,3839,412,13909,3783,13917,7796,3733,13901,2918,13905,13908,755,1756,13906,13912,1691,1658,1630,444,13907,13913,512,13902,2755],"class_list":["post-9990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-airport-news","category-australia-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-communications-news","category-consumer-news","category-coronavirus","category-covid-19","category-finance-news","category-frequent-flyer-news","category-international-news","category-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","category-travel","category-travel-news","tag-actress","tag-adelaide","tag-aircraft","tag-airline","tag-airlines","tag-america","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-aviation","tag-black","tag-canberra","tag-cookies","tag-covid-19","tag-croatia","tag-elaine","tag-eyes","tag-financial","tag-flew","tag-flight","tag-goldsmith","tag-guinness","tag-hosts","tag-kingdom","tag-lane","tag-lockdown","tag-loved","tag-luke","tag-melbourne","tag-memory","tag-most","tag-news","tag-nuptials","tag-passengers","tag-peas","tag-performing","tag-postpone","tag-prahran","tag-record","tag-serdar","tag-singer","tag-sky","tag-sydney","tag-tiong","tag-tottie","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-uk","tag-united","tag-va841","tag-victorian","tag-virgin","tag-wedding","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9992,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions\/9992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}