Every year around Saint Valentine’s Day, a stream of romantic stories trickles into the scene. The airline industry is not immune to this phenomenon, and, in fact, some carriers fully embrace it.
On February 14, 2025, Icelandic low-cost airline PLAY made one of its aircraft available as an inflight wedding venue.
The groom, Valur, from Iceland, and the bride, Kita, from France, got married onboard a PLAY flight between their respective countries.
The international couple got married on a PLAY flight between Keflavik International Airport (KEF) and Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) in the presence of some 200 other passengers. The couple tied the knot mid-route, exactly halfway between the two countries.
PLAY added to the romantic atmosphere by assigning a crew to this particular flight which was made up exclusively of staff members that happen to be also couples.
Both the flight captain, Sverrir Örn Valdimarsson, and the first officer, Ævar Þór Björnsson, were joined on this flight by their respective partners, Katrín Lára Vilhjálmsdóttir and Fanney Björk Kristinsdóttir, who are cabin crew members. The other two crew on the aircraft, Samúel Friðfinnsson and Rakel Björk Egilsdóttir, also happen to be romantic partners.
While not a common occurrence, inflight weddings are not entirely unheard of. In the last few years there have been several instances of airlines collaborating with couples that wish to celebrate their wedding ceremony up in the air.
For example, in February 2021, a couple got married on a Virgin Australia flight and, in 2022, a US couple improvised a wedding onboard a Southwest Airlines flight to Las Vegas after their original travel itinerary was disrupted due to a flight cancellation.
Also in 2022, Uganda Airlines, went one step further and launched a dedicated service for couples that wish to get married onboard one of the African carrier’s airliners.
Some couples even charter aircraft with the sole purpose of holding a flying wedding. This was the case of an Indian couple which rented a private Boeing 747 to celebrate a luxurious inflight wedding during a flight between Dubai and Oman. Worth noting about that ceremony is the fact that the father of the bride had also got married onboard an Air India aircraft back in 1994.
