FOR Kris and Sarah Gerig, their trial has ended in a life sentence of love.

The New Orleans couple, who met on jury duty in a theft trial in August 2015, were married March 14 in the same courtroom where they met. Their ceremony was presided over by the same judge who heard the trial they served on the jury for.

Kris Gerig felt it was meant to be. “First there were 200 potential jurors,” he told “Good Morning America.” “Then it was down to 30. Then just six people on the jury, with one alternate. Sarah was the alternate.”

“Each step of the way almost missed out on getting to know each other,” he said.

Sarah Gerig recalled that Kris was, “well-dressed and cute and was pretty funny. He was the only one with a notebook and pencil.”

The two-day trial ended before they got to say goodbye, Sarah Gerig said. But the jury had to return to the courtroom the next week to potentially be selected for another trial.

That’s when Kris took his opportunity. He asked Sarah out, and they had lunch that day near the courthouse.

The couple were engaged a year later, and Sarah Gerig said the idea to get married in the courtroom where they met was something they had joked about.

She wrote a note to Judge Robin Pittman and the judge, who Sarah described as “no nonsense” during the trial, granted the couple’s request to get married in her courtroom. She also allowed them to invite whoever they wanted.

(SD-Agencies)