— Their planned Washington, D.C., wedding this week was shutdown when Congress failed to pass spending resolutions to continue government funding, but a couple active in Missouri politics during the 2012 cycle got one better from Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert on Thursday.

Mike Cassesso, who worked for the Missouri Democratic Party’s 2012 field operation aiding Sen. Claire McCaskill’s campaign, and MaiLien Le, the 2012 deputy research director for Gov. Jay Nixon’s reelection campaign, were married by Colbert, an ordained minister and comedy host, on a show which was broadcast on Thursday night.

“I promised you on night one of the shutdown that as leader of the Colbert Nation and Earl Lord of the Afterscape, I would provide all canceled government services,” Colbert said, “and that includes weddings.”

“Thank (you) for most amazing and unexpected wedding ceremony ever! We are (for)ever thankful #shutdownwedding,” Cassesso wrote to Colbert on Twitter. For gifts, he added that he and Le hoped people would make donations to the Covenant House in Washington, a crisis center for homeless youth.

Cassesso and Le had planned to get married near the Jefferson Memorial until the site was closed off due to a lapse in federal funding. The two got engaged last May, and moved back to Washington after the election. According to the Associated Press, nearly two dozen October weddings – including nine that were planned this week – were put in jeopardy.