Cardboard cutouts replace guests at wedding as couple tie the knot amid coronavirus

Cardboard cutout wedding guests will make for a t-so-cookie-cutter wedding as a Michigan couple prepares to tie kt during coronavirus pandemic.

After Amy Simonson and Dan Stuglik’s wedding plans were disrupted amid outbreak, a packaging company donated more than 100 cardboard cutouts to pose as stand-ins for family and friends who couldn’t attend wedding this Saturday because of Michigan’s stay-at-home order.

Menasha Packaging Co. in Coloma made cutouts to resemble guests tall and short, young and old, with long hair, short hair and ponytails.

″(Stuglik) was just looking for a general person shape, but I was able to make a little bit more realistic audience for m,” Ted Harris, customer service and design manr at Menasha, told Herald-Palladium .

Stuglik, a Coloma Township police officer, said he’ll forever be thankful to Menasha for helping him do something special for his fiancée.

“I wanted to do something (creative) so she wouldn’t walk down aisle to an empty church,” he said. “That was a painful part, that her wedding was being stripped away from her, but Menasha helped bring a little back.”