Weddings at Notre-Dame are exceedingly rare because the cathedral is not a parish church and does not normally conduct sacraments for individual couples.

As the seat of the Archbishop of Paris and a national monument, it serves primarily as a site for major religious and state ceremonies — Masses, funerals and national commemorations — rather than private events.

Only the archbishop can authorize a wedding there, and such dispensations have been granted just a handful of times in its 860-year history.

Lorentz, who hand-cut oak beams using 13th-century tools and methods, had asked the archbishop earlier this year for permission to wed in the cathedral he helped save.

“It’s the happiest day of my life,” Lorentz told reporters.

“I want to share my love — our love — with the whole world, with everyone who needs it.”