Carpenter Who Helped Rebuild Notre Dame Gets Married There
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When a carpenter named Martin Lorentz joined the team restoring Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral after the fire in 2019, he probably didn’t imagine he’d be tying the knot there one day...
But, reports France24, that’s exactly what just happened. It was also the first wedding held in the cathedral for three decades.
After dedicating three years to rebuilding the legendary cathedral’s roof using medieval techniques, Lorentz asked Archbishop Laurent Ulrich of Paris for permission to marry his partner, Jade, underneath the very structure he helped piece back together - and as a one-time exception, Ulrich said yes. It’s a rare honour, as Notre Dame is not a parish church but rather a national monument primarily used for religious and state ceremonies. This wedding was the first held there in thirty years.
“Jade and Martin, welcome to this cathedral. Martin, you know it well - you know it from above,” Msgr. Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, who serves as the Archpriest of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, said at the ceremony.
The nuptials were as grand as you’d imagine. Five hundred guests filled the cathedral, including many of the groom’s fellow carpenters, to celebrate the happy couple. “I want to share my love, our love, with the whole world, with everyone who needs it,” Lorentz told reporters on the big day, per AFP. “It’s the happiest day of my life.”
