How to have a huge AND covid-safe wedding: Priest-turned-Fox contributor and his ABC producer wife marry at New York’s St Patrick’s Cathedral and fit in 200 socially-distanced guests – including Megyn Kelly
- Former priest Jonathan Morris, 48, and ABC News producer Kaitlyn Folmer, 37, married last month in New York City
- The couple hosted 200 guests inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral who were all socially-distanced and wearing masks
- They then had a dinner for 50 people at Westchester’s Winged Foot Golf Club
- Megyn Kelly and Fox meteorologist Janice Dean were also in attendance
- The couple met in Rome, Italy, in 2007 while reporting on resignation of Pope Benedict XVI
A former priest turned Fox News commentator and an ABC News producer were married last month in New York City.
Jonathan Morris, 48, and Kaitlyn Folmer, 37, tied the knot on October 17 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral after meeting in Rome, Italy, in 2013.
Pictures from the wedding show the happy couple walking down the aisle and smiling at the 200 guests who were sat three pews apart and wearing masks.
The pair faced claims they broke COVID guidelines and were accused of showing a lack of taste by holding the wedding in the middle of the pandemic.
But they adhered to New York state guidelines and limited the guest list to make sure they didn’t exceed capacity in their venues.
Kaitlyn Folmer (left), and ABC producer, and Jonathan Morris (right), a former priest and Fox News contributor, married on October 17 in New York City amid the pandemic and adhered to city and state guidelines
Morris and Folmer (left to right) first met in Rome, Italy, seven years ago while covering the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI
The couple invited 200 of their closest family and friends to the ceremony inside the Manhattan cathedral before holding a meet-and-greet at Hudson Yards.
From there, a dinner was hosted for 50 guests at Winged Foot Golf Club’s outdoor terrace in the quaint town of Mamaroneck, New York.
At the time, 50-person gatherings were allowed and churches were limited to 25 percent capacity.
St Patrick’s has a capacity of 3,000 – so the 200 people in attendance fell below the threshold.
Since then, tighter restrictions have been put in place by Governor Andrew Cuomo because a rise in the infection rate.
Pictured (left to right): Kaitlyn Folmer, Jonathan Morris, Megyn Kelly and Janice Dean of Fox News
Kaitlyn (center): Morris ‘was very kind and very pleasant, and I liked the fact that he also spoke Italian’
Kell (right) her husband Douglas Brunt (second right), Janice Dean (left) and her spouse Sean Newman (second left) are seen at the meet-and-greet in Hudson Yards
When the couple first crossed paths in Rome, they were both reporting on the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and installation of Pope Francis.
The New York Times reports that Folmer was booking guests for Good Morning America’ and that included Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, who was close with Morris.
Folmer recalled being ‘incredibly impressed’ by Morris during the booking process, and would sporadically see him on TV after the trip.
In one of the interviews he discussed leaving the priesthood.
The Times reports that Morris was then given a sabbatical by Cardinal Dolan to consider the next steps in his life.
‘I was seeking a special dispensation to leave the priesthood,’ he told the publication. ‘I received about 25,000 emails in the two days that followed my announcement during that.’
Morris and Folmer met when they were both reporting on the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and installation of Pope Francis