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MILE-HIGH LOVE: Bride-to-be wears unique wedding dress as she walks down aisle on Southwest flight

'They did a brief faux ceremony. It was so fun, and creative. It uplifted everyone on the plane,' said Bogetti

AUSTIN, TEXAS: A Texas bride-to-be and her fiance held a faux ceremony onboard a Southwest Airlines flight with the help of a cheerful plane crew. The mid-air festivities showed the bride-to-be donning a dress of toilet rolls as she walked down the plane aisle while the groom waited in the wings wearing a pretzel sash. 

The Southwest Airlines flight from Austin, Texas to Oakland, California, was initially delayed, however little did the passengers know they were booking themselves on a three-hour filled parody matrimony. In a viral video, which has racked up more than millions of views, passengers onboard could be heard cheering the unnamed Texas couple dressed in disposable material.

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What happened on the Southwest Airlines flight?

Tamara Bogetti, a passenger on the plane said, "About an hour into the flight, the flight attendant went over to the woman and asked her to come with her to the back of the plane,” the woman told Storyful, reported New York Post. “She told the groom-to-be that she’d be back and he would need to go to the front." The bride then walked down the aisle and donned a large veil made out of toilet paper rolls and a matching bouquet made from the same while the groom to have waited on the other end of the plane wing decorated in a pretzel sash.

Delighted onlookers swiftly pulled out their phones to record the impromptu ceremony as they cheered for the loving couple. As the bride makes her way down the aisle she is greeted with a huge stream of applause and whoops from the passengers and crew. Bogetti recalled the festivity and said, "They did a brief faux ceremony. It was so fun, and creative. It uplifted everyone on the plane," reported the source. Footage of the celebrations has since been garnered more than 1,000 times, with Southwest airlines also commenting on the mid-air event. 

'Southwest made this flight fun celebrating a bride & groom!'

Bogetti then took to Twitter to describe her delighted plane journey and said, "Southwest made this flight fun celebrating a bride & groom.” “Made me smile despite the delayed flight,” she gushed on Twitter. Shortly, Southwest responded with a tweet of their own, this one thanking Bogetti for recording the moment and sharing it with others online. "Thanks for sharing, Tammy," the airline's official account wrote.

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