"Couple was" or "couple were" getting married?

Solution 1:

From Ngrams, you can see that "couple were married" beats "couple was married". This is especially true for British English.

couple was/were married Ngram

Looking at the Ngram results for American and British English, while both forms are currently used roughly equally often in the U.S., hardly anybody says "the couple is getting married" in the U.K.