Weddings returned: two couples said yes and add venues for weddings in the City

10/29/2020 18:03

• Clarín.com

• Cities

Updated 10/29/2020 6:03 PM

Sergio and María Eugenia were the first, at 17. Santiago and María Celeste said yes an hour later.

Both couples were married with protocols, in the open air, but

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And to do so, they

, as was done before March 20, when the quarantine for the coronavirus was established and the civil liaison ceremonies were suspended.

The two preferred privacy and being away from photographers. 

From March 13 until now,

passed through the door of Calle Uruguay 753

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Most without rice or relatives.

They were couples who contracted a relationship after justifying that they had a labor need due to a contract abroad or under "in extremis" conditions.

But now, that the City faced a gradual plan of openings, the website was also rehabilitated to ask for appointments and get married in "the new normal".

Weddings are in the so-called Patio del arroz.

Couples go there after going through the wedding rooms and saying yes.

In that space, the first photos are taken and the first kisses and hugs from relatives are received.

In times of pandemic, the courtyard was reconfigured for weddings to take place there.

With the couple, the witnesses and not many other people, according to the protocol.

So

From March 13 until now, about 7,000 weddings and 2,500 coexistence unions have been suspended.

"Ten days ago we opened the shifts and 250 couples registered, of which 100 requested the headquarters in Uruguay and 100 for Commune 14, in Palermo. The rest will say yes in communes 5 and 2, which will begin to function from next week, "sources from the Buenos Aires Civil Registry told Clarín.

Shifts can be ordered through the website www.buenosaires.gob.ar/registrocivil.

There, couples can obtain their turn through the digital platform and continue with the process, to avoid face-to-face continuity as much as possible.

As reported from the Civil Registry, which depends on the Buenos Aires Ministry of Government, this is the "high season" for marriages, since in other years, during the months of September, October, November and December they take place, on average,

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The "low season" occurs between February and Easter, while the rest of the year there are between 800 to 1,000 marriages per month and in terms of matter, and around 350 or 400 coexistence unions every thirty days.

Although there is still no confirmation, sources from the Buenos Aires government said that

, which have been taking place for a few years.

Thus, spaces such as El Parque de la Ciudad, the Glorieta de Barrancas de Belgrano, the Japanese Garden, the GEBA club or El Rosedal, could once again host ceremonies.

The last few years have been one of great changes regarding marriage, particularly in the City.

Between 1990 and 2019,

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Now it is around 34. And the number of marriages dropped decisively: at the beginning of the 90s, there were 7.4 marriages per thousand people, while in 2018, that rate fell to

In 1990 there were 22 thousand marriages and 12,400 in 2009. And they

Of these, 10,374 were heterosexual couples and 519, made up of people of the same sex: 321 between men and 198 between women.

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