Sara Arroyo Montalvo and her fiancé, Bladimil, boarded a Southwest flight on August 13 planning to do something quiet: fly to Las Vegas, elope, and skip the whole production. Somewhere over the country, at 35,000 feet, the production found them anyway.

It started with a small request. Montalvo asked a flight attendant if the couple could use an empty row to finish writing their vows. That single question was enough — within minutes, the crew had decided this wedding wasn't waiting for Vegas.

A Dress Made of Toilet Paper

With no wedding dress on board, the flight attendants improvised: a veil and a one-ply gown fashioned from toilet paper, and a bouquet built out of Southwest coffee stir sticks. Somewhere in the cabin, 178 strangers were quietly becoming wedding guests.

Then came the officiant. The flight's captain announced over the PA that he'd been an ordained minister for more than 30 years and had performed hundreds of ceremonies — just never one at cruising altitude. This would be his first.

As you all know, Southwest is the love airline, and today, love is in the air.

Flight attendant, announcing the ceremony to passengers

Married Twice in Two Days

The captain pronounced them married mid-flight, to applause from the cabin. The couple went on to make it official at a Las Vegas chapel the next day, giving them, by Montalvo's own account, two wedding days instead of one.

Video Montalvo posted afterward has racked up well over 100,000 views, with commenters split between calling it the sweetest thing they'd seen on a plane and gently pointing out that a middle-of-the-cabin ceremony makes for an awkward stretch if anyone needs the bathroom.

Not the First Time This Year

Montalvo and Bladimil's flight wasn't an isolated case — Southwest crews have organized at least one other impromptu in-flight wedding this year, for a different couple on a separate route, suggesting the airline's famously loose, hospitality-driven culture has turned spontaneous cabin weddings into something of a recurring bit among its flight crews.

IF Daily could not locate a rights-cleared video specifically of the Montalvo-Bladimil ceremony; the photo above is a file image of a Southwest Airlines aircraft, not the flight in question.