Photo provided Jason Cole and Jerica Godwin during their wedding ceremony at Columbia Care.

The nuptials came full circle.

Jason Cole, 44, and Jerica Godwin, 24, said “I do” in a short and sweet ceremony.

The location: A place that gives many a new shot at life.

The wedding took place on a lesser-known marijuana holiday at a Cape Coral dispensary.

The July 10 wedding’s theme was sunflowers and cannabis. July 10, or 710, spells oil backwards.

Arnetra Shettleworth, vice president of operations for Columbia Care, said it’s more of a concentrate holiday, where 420 (the more well-known holiday) is about flower.

Some people smoke cannabis flower, while others prefer concentrate oils or edibles.

Medical marijuana is an alternative form of medicine that can be used to help pain, cancer, Crohn’s disease, epilepsy, nausea and a variety of other ailments.

The dispensary decorated the space and immediate family came to support the couple.

“It was a small wedding,” Godwin said. “Really quick in and out. They had it decorated all nice.”

Her favorite part was having both of their families there.

“It wasn’t one family on one side and one family on the other,” she said. “Everyone was all mixed in.”

Shettleworth thought the ceremony went very well.

“It was so nice to see patients and the wedding party,” she said. “Folks driving by were so curious about what was going on. The couple was very happy with the ceremony.”

Open since November, it was Columbia Care’s first wedding.

Shettleworth hasn’t heard about them happening as much in Florida and thinks they’re more popular in states like California, where medical marijuana is a little more mainstream.

Columbia Care is at 2126 Del Prado Blvd., S., in Cape Coral.

The couple originally wanted to get married on the marijuana holiday, April 20. They started planning the wedding before the Coronavirus pandemic.

“In the heat of COVID, we had to shut it down,” Shettleworth said. “We had to postpone, but we were happy to accommodate them on July 10.”

The couple approached Columbia Care about their nuptials in February and Shettleworth said the dispensary was excited to help out.

There were about 20 wedding guests.

The ceremony began at 6 p.m. and it was over an hour later. The wedding party wore masks and properly social distanced.

“It was short and sweet,” Shettleworth said.

Shettleworth said Cole is there for others, and the dispensary wanted to be there for him and Godwin, too.

“Helping those who have multiple types of diseases and managing them through cannabis, having one of the most important days of his life in a place that has been so important to him – we absolutely said yes,” Shettleworth said.

Cole worked in the cannabis industry for 15 years. Five years ago he was diagnosed with colorectal cancer and he decided to try medical marijuana.

Cole said he had some bad reactions to conventional medicine, so he went with his gut instinct to try a healthy diet and cannabis oil.

Cole chose Columbia Care because they’re compassionate and their products are “above and beyond” every else’s.

Godwin met Cole after his cancer treatments.

“He had radiation that was misdirected,” she said. “It wasn’t where it was supposed to go. There were some pretty bad side effects. The medical marijuana helped a lot.”

Godwin, who is a medical marijuana cardholder herself, has gone to other dispensaries in the area, but she likes Columbia Care the best.

“I like the people there,” she said. “They’re really nice. They’re concerned for you and your wellbeing. They usually don’t make you wait.”

Godwin and Cole also think it’s important for people to know there are other things you can use besides prescription medications.

“There’s still a stigma attached to medical marijuana and that’s what we’re trying to break,” she said. “Some people look at it as this terrible drug and addictive gateway thing and it’s not.”

Shettleworth is happy Columbia Care got to share this special moment with the newlyweds.

“It’s really important to share how special it was for someone in the medical marijuana community who is an advocate and patient himself, a cancer survivor, someone who has given so much of himself to help others,” Shettleworth said. “It’s important for us to give back to the couple.”