CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The cold can't quench love! We paid a visit to Saturday marriage court on this cold morning to see if there were people bracing the cold to get ready to party. And there were.
Walk past the Cook County building on on Randolph Street between LaSalle and Clark on any Saturday morning around 8:30 to 9 a.m. and you'll see couples, witnesses and family lined up waiting for Cook County's Marriage and Civil Union Court to open its downtown location in the basement of the County Building side of what most of us know as "City Hall."
Today, Cook County deputy Terrence Camodeca, who has served Marriage Court for many years, told WBBM he opened the doors 15 minutes early at 8:45 (opening usually is 9 a.m.) to let the wedding parties in — which included children and even babies — to have a warm place to wait.
"In cold weather like this, you see a true testimony to people's love for each other," Camodeca said.
He said cold weather very rarely deters people from coming to get married, no matter how freezing it gets.
"Love blossoms in any weather in any season," he said, smiling.
Pride-to-be Stephanie Bylos and her husband-to-be Andriy Quahar were able to wait inside after parking across the street from the Marriage Court. They said the cold weather does not affect them too much.
Pan said her husband-to-be dropped her off in front of the building and then went to find parking so she could be warm. She said with a laugh that it was a sign of his shivalry and smarts.
Judge John Huff, on Marriage Court duty today, estimated there were 50 couples as of 9:15 a.m. waiting to be married.
Producers Helen Marshall and Ariel Parrella-Aureli contributed to this story.
