During 2020, weddings were profoundly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. During periods of lockdown few weddings could take place, and even afterwards restrictions on how they could be celebrated remained. To investigate the impact of such restrictions, we carried out a survey of those whose plans to marry in England and Wales had been affected by Covid-19. The 1,449 responses we received illustrated that the ease and speed with which couples had been able to marry, and sometimes whether they had been able to marry at all, had depended not merely on the national restrictions in place but on their chosen route into marriage. This highlights the complexity and antiquity of marriage law and reinforces the need for reform. The restrictions on weddings taking place also revealed the extent to which couples valued getting married as opposed to having a wedding. Understanding both the social and the legal dimension of weddings is important in informing recommendations as to how the law should be changed in the future, not merely to deal with similar crises but also to ensure that the general law is fit for purpose in the twenty-first century.

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Covid-19 时代的爱情：关于管理婚礼的复杂法律的案例研究

在 2020 年，婚礼受到了 Covid-19 大流行的深刻影响。在封锁期间，很少有婚礼可以举行，甚至在之后如何庆祝婚礼的限制仍然存在。为了调查这些限制的影响，我们对那些计划在英格兰和威尔士结婚的人进行了一项调查，这些人受到了 Covid-19 的影响。我们收到的 1,449 份回复表明，夫妻能够结婚的难易程度和速度，有时甚至是否能够结婚，不仅取决于国家的限制措施，还取决于他们选择的结婚途径。这凸显了婚姻法的复杂性和古老性，并强调了改革的必要性。对举行婚礼的限制也揭示了夫妻重视结婚而不是举行婚礼的程度。了解婚礼的社会和法律层面对于就未来应如何修改法律提出建议非常重要，不仅是为了处理类似的危机，而且为了确保一般法律适合 20 世纪的目的。第一世纪。