Loved-up holiday couple get married on Zoom – 5,000 miles apart

A newly-wed couple who tied the knot over Zoom 5,000 miles apart are looking forward to settling down at their new home in the UK.

Andrew Bateman, from Merseyside, and Mitzi Gussman, from Mexico City, plan to go travelling around Europe before starting a family.  

They were meant to get married in Mexico on July 31 last year, but the ceremony was postponed due to the global Covid outbreak.

Andrew, 22, and Mitzi, 28, had moved their nuptials to February 6 this year, but Covid restrictions struck again to scupper the plans.

Having been apart since last July, they chose a virtual ceremony instead, with the bride and groom in separate places and an official from Germany.

Andrew told Metro.co.uk: ‘We’ve always been there for each other through all the obstacles, we just get each other.

‘If Mitzi’s down I cheer her up and if I’m down she cheers me up every time. I’ve never clicked with someone like this before.

‘We were just meant to be together.’

Around 40 guests wearing their wedding attire, including mothers on both sides, heard the couple say ‘I do’.

Mitzi wore a white dress, made possible via a wedding company in Germany working in accordance with regulations in Utah, USA.

The long-distance couple were given the option of moving the real-world wedding – planned for Mexico City – to November, but have now re-booked for July 30, 2021.

Although they will be legally married once their apostille certificates arrive in the post, they still plan to hold a church ceremony and party.  

Andrew, an electrical engineer, said: ‘It was strange not to be with Mitzi on our wedding day, especially because we bought a house at Christmas.

‘All I wanted to do was reach into my iPad and hold her, but I’m just relieved to finally be married and I’m waiting for us to start our new life together.

‘Our new home is right next to the train station, so if she gets a job in Liverpool city centre she can jump straight on. She hasn’t seen it yet and I just can’t wait to welcome her home for the first time.’

The couple met in summer 2018 at the Dreams Puerto Aventuras resort in Cancun, where Andrew was on a two-week family holiday and where Mitzi previously worked as an entertainer organising activities including volleyball tournaments and kids’ clubs.

Hitting it off, the couple decamped to another hotel for a few days and stayed in touch, visiting each other’s families in their respective countries the following winter.

Andrew then proposed under the Eiffel Tower in April 2019.

They have only seen each other eight times, as the pandemic curtailed their travel plans.

The couple had planned to go on honeymoon the day after the wedding to a private villa at a cliff-side hotel with an infinity pool in Acapulco.

As they could not get a refund, Mitzi is now going with her sister instead, with the newlyweds aiming to take another marital break next year.

Andrew is currently living alone in their home near his parents’ house in Maghull, while Mitzi applies for a spousal visa to move to the UK, which they expect will take around three months.

‘We want to settle down and have kids in the future, but we want a couple of years together to go travelling around Europe and just do whatever,’ he said.

‘It will be a big relief when we’re finally living together because it will be us dictating when we see each other and not the border officials. I’ll have Mitzi to come home to rather than coming back to our house on my own.’

The couple also spoke of their happiness as they appeared in separate video links on Good Morning Britain today.

Speaking to Kate Garraway, Mitzi said: ‘I’m more happy now, the only thing we want is to stay together.’

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