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It looks like redditor adepssimius is getting married! Ben made a little change to their “save the date” announcements, and didn’t reveal it until after they were mailed. When Amy found out, she thought it was hilarious. If you can’t see the addition he made, you can click to enlarge the photo or see an exploded version at Imgur. Link -via reddit
How did this happen? Maybe when they decided to list the house for sale in a hurry, the only exterior picture they had was a dud from the wedding album. Or maybe it was a Photoshop Disaster. Either way, potential buyers are going to assume the house is haunted! Link
Now that you know what is expected of you, you’ll be able to prepare that little talk for your friend’s upcoming wedding. Another gem from The Doghouse Diaries. Link -via Blame It On The Voices
Is it perfect timing, coincidence, or a message from beyond about the viability of this marriage? No, the wedding party didn’t run for cover, but neither did they suffer from a tornado or air raid. It was most likely just a siren test. -via reddit
Every
father wants their son's new life in marriage to start right, and Zhang
Cheng of Jiangsu province, China, is no different. That's why he hired
wedding strippers for his son's nuptial:
The man, Zhang Cheng, had initially planned to invite a "trumpet band" to liven up his son's wedding, but was eventually turned onto a performance troupe which Zhang had been told contains certain "special features."
After watching the show, Zhang decided it would be appropriate for his son's wedding and requested two strippers for the event.
The show proved a bit too public for comfort, however, and barely five minutes had passed before hundreds of villagers in the conservative community were swarming the venue, trying to catch a glimpse.
"Trumpet" band, indeed! Link
Mike and Nancy Rogers were to be married in the main lodge at White Point Beach Resort in Nova Scotia. However, that building was on fire, so they held the ceremony in another resort building. But the happy couple took the opportunity to pose for a wedding portrait in front of the conflagration. That’s one photo composition you don’t see at every wedding! Read about the fire and see videos at HuffPo. Link -via Buzzfeed
(Image credit: Nicholas Augustus/Canadian Press)
Before
they say yes to the dress, a growing number of Indians are saying yes
to "wedding detectives":
Agencies say they've seen a huge rise in pre-matrimonial investigations to check a suitor's background, because more people are meeting online and families are less involved.
"It's not spying, we just wanted to know about my sister's boyfriend before she married him," says Anita (not her real name). She hired a private investigator to verify her now brother-in-law's background. Her sister met and fell in love with him at work, but Anita and her parents wanted to "authenticate" his family's status and finances before the wedding went ahead.
She enlisted the services of one of India's many pre-matrimonial detective agencies, which spent a month drawing up a report into his earnings, family history and past relationships, among other things.
"He told us he was from a good family, but we needed to ensure he was telling the truth.
"Earlier in India with arranged marriages which were set up by the family, relatives would know about a partner, but now you don't know if he's married or has children or whatever, so we needed to hire someone to check all this," says Anita, adding her still-happily-married sister never knew about the detectives.
Link (Photo: Shutterstock)
Jessica and Jonathan Carroll tied the knot in true super hero style, although DC comics might be surprised to see Superman marrying villain Harley Quinn, as the two appeared at the nuptials. Read all about it and see more wedding photos at Geeks Are Sexy. Link
Conan O’Brien officiated a same-sex wedding on his TV show last night. Whether that is big news or not, the way the story has been covered shows how much television news depends on someone else to write their scripts news copy. There’s another video at Laughing Squid that synchs the newscasts so they repeat the phrase in unison. Link
For his wedding, redditor joeythehobo had rings of Damascus steel inscribed as you see here. As you can see, the wedding went off without a hitch. Or with a “hitch,” as it were. Link -via @johncfarrier
Two cute flower girls at a wedding do their thing. One sister strews flower petals in the pathway. The little sister then has to pick them up because her littering, mess-making sister dropped them on the ground! -via SayOMG
The title of this picture from redditor theroboticdan is “My cousin’s entire Bridal Party sank into a lake this weekend. Awesome picture…. ” but the top-voted comment gave it the above title. There are plenty more puns in the comments. Link
(Image credit: Jeff Hayford)
Shawn spent an entire year getting ready to throw a surprise wedding for Colleen, and make everything exactly the way she wanted it to be. No detail was overlooked. Shawn even brought her bedroom furniture to the wedding venue so Colleen could get dressed in familiar surroundings. It all came together this past Saturday. Have someone been chopping onions in here? -via Cynical-C
A guy in Johannesburg hired 100 singers to stage a flashmob at a mall, all to propose to his girlfriend. I cannot understand how some shoppers are in such a hurry that they can’t stop and enjoy the moment with them. Or do singing flash mobs happen every day at the mall? -via Buzzfeed
This Russian wedding video is very special to the couple in it, but it reminds me of a Geocities website. Oh, except for the part where they played Pong. That reminded me of Pong. -via the Presurfer
Stories about weddings conducted in hospitals are not rare; typically, however, they involve terminally ill patients. This one is different because the bride is a pediatric neurosurgeon who wanted to include her patients in the ceremony.
At the reception near the tiny hospital chapel where the vows were spoken, the couple greeted small patients, some hitched to monitors… “They are like my own kids,” Bragg said. “My goal is to make kids happy and healthy and to help them live the lives they were meant to live. This is exactly what I wanted. They are a part of my life, and they are a part of my happiness. That’s what today was all about.”
The rest of the story is at the Wisconsin State Journal.
The British creative team called Concept Shed produced this odd but beautiful vending machine to performed automated weddings for Marvin’s Marvellous Mechanical Museum in Detroit. Enter your information on the keyboard, and it spits out a plastic ring, asks you to enter your vows, and prints out a certificate! The eight-foot-tall computerized machine has a beautiful retro look. They’ll make you one to your specifications if you want. See a video of the machine in action at their website. Link -via the Presurfer
Yes, it’s fetching, and there’s a real story behind this dress, as well. The parachute saved the life of pilot Maj. Claude Hensinger when he bailed out of his disabled B-29 over Japan in 1944. It was his blanket and pillow as he waited for rescue. In 1947, he gave it to his girlfriend when he proposed to her, and she made it into the skirt portion of her wedding dress. The dress was also worn by their daughter and then by their son’s bride in later weddings. Now it belongs to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Link -via Boing Boing
Ah, the Father/Daughter Wedding Dance … the loving glance of a parent and child, the awkward swaying to cheesy music …
Well, not at Brooke Lavin’s wedding! At her wedding, her pop Bill showed some of his smooth moves: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via The Frisky
What lies at the intersection of sci-fi geekdom and royal wedding fever? The royal wedding dalek! Chris Balcombe is an avid Doctor Who fan with his own dalek, which got a makeover for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Chris Balcombe, 51, has spent one week decorating his Dalek to tie in with the occasion. The Doctor’s nemesis has been painted red, blue and white and is covered with Union Jack flags and photos of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Furthermore, Chris attached a mechanical grip to the Dalek so it can hold trays of food and drinks.
Around 80 guests attended a lavish wedding in Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex, England. Louise Harris hired a wedding planner who oversaw the flowers, decorations, food, and security for the £20,000 ($32,000US) affair. The wedding was for Louise’s six-year-old Yorkshire terrier, Lola. Lola wore a £1000 specially-designed wedding dress, decorated with Swarovski crystals. Harris has thrown lavish birthday parties for her dogs, but this bash outdid them all.
Louise who runs dog boutique and grooming parlour Diva Dogs, in Essex – ran an online competition on her DivaDogs website and Facebook page to find the perfect husband for her princess Lola.
She received hundreds of entries of would-be suitors for Lol but whittled it down to a final six potential partners.
But much to her surprise, Lolas obvious favourite was Mugly, previously voted Britains ugliest dog, owned by mum-of-four Bev Nicholson, 47.
See another picture of Mugly here. After the ceremony, guests enjoyed a sumptuous buffet and a six-foot tall chocolate fountain. The dog guests had their own specially-made treats. The bride and groom will not live together, but will visit once a month. Link -via Arbroath
(Image credit: Barcroft Media)
Quick -what’s traditional to serve at a wedding? Cake? Champagne? That’s just the beginning, because different cultures have different menus, and they all have some history or symbolic meaning. The Igbo tribe of southern Nigeria incorporates kola nuts (pictured here) in the wedding ceremony, as a bridal gift, to be served to guests, and even as part of the ceremony. Read about this and more at Woman’s Day. Link -via the Presurfer
A wedding ring is symbol of commitment and permanence. A tattoo is commitment and permanence in itself. Some couples are skipping the jewelry in favor of matching or complementary tattoos on the couple’s ring fingers. And why not? You don’t have to remove it to shower, work with machinery, or have an MRI. It can’t be lost or stolen. It will never have to be resized or replaced. And you can design your own unique symbols! See a variety of wedding band tattoos in this list by Shaun Usher. Link
Save the date, because there’s some travel involved! She’s from Mayo, Ireland and he’s from London, England, so they’re getting married in Cornwall. This video wedding invitation for Victoria and Paul uses the art of collage to make it memorable. Corey McKenna, who created the stop-motion wedding invitation we featured a couple of years ago for his own wedding, was recruited to make this one. The music is “Keep the Car Running” by Arcade Fire. -Thanks, Corey!
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May they live long and prosper! Star Trek fan Pamela recently got assimilated married. Two wedding cakes graced the event, one a recreation of the starship Voyager and the other a Borg Cube. See another picture at Geeks Are Sexy. Link
An underwater wedding ceremony yesterday at the London Aquarium drew the attention of a turtle who came forward to object to the union of this man and this woman. Or maybe he just objected to the the couple trespassing in his territory. Or possibly he just wanted a bite of that delicious wedding dress! -via Buzzfeed
Here’s one distinct disadvantage of being a polygamist: your wives can gang up and beat the crap out of you!
You know you’re dealing with a special household when a domestic argument turns into a case of gang assault.
But witnesses in Pakistan say that’s what happened to polygamist Mian Ishaq, who was beaten up by his first and second wives for allegedly conducting a secret wedding with a fourth wife — and planning a fifth marriage.
Ishaq was reportedly attending a friend’s wedding reception with his third wife when his first two spouses, identified as Mehvish and Uzma, arrived with a score to settle, according to The Telegraph.
The wives showed up with relatives and reportedly began overturning tables and threatening Ishaq’s life, then attacked their husband with their shoes until police hauled them away.
Uzma told the press that her husband deserved to be beaten.
In order to make Jillian Sherlock and Nikhil Pereira’s wedding day as perfect as possible, the five bridesmaids kept quiet about the carjacking incident until after the ceremony was complete. A man who had broken into a house near the church in Boston was looking for a getaway, and the limousine carrying the bridesmaids looked like a possibility.
“He started fighting with the driver, and the girls got out and ran,” said Karl Kammann, a Buckingham Bus driver who had just dropped off 48 guests at the church. “It was chaos. Right out from under the wedding party! What a way to get married.”
Headed in the opposite direction on Columbia Road was Gerald Whelan, who was sitting in traffic when he spotted the man get into the limo.
“I saw the driver’s side open, and the driver struggling, half in and half out,” said Whelan, 61. “He started yelling, ‘Help me! Somebody help me!’ ”
The driver managed to get out, unharmed, and the limo disappeared down Columbia Road, only to be abandoned shortly afterward on West Fifth Street in South Boston as police searched for the wedding bandit.
The ceremony went on as scheduled while police cordoned off the area as a crime scene. Another limousine was summoned to carry the wedding party. Link -via Arbroath
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Psst! Wanna hear something neat? Bruce Campbell has just been ordained so this means … zombie wedding!
Our pal Geekscape has the details:
ZomBCon, the premiere zombie convention being held this Halloween in Seattle, is announcing today that newly ordained minister Bruce Campbell will be officiating a zombie wedding at the inaugural convention. While only one couple is going to be lucky enough to be married by Campbell, he will also be officiating a mass renewal ceremony, for those zombies that didn’t get to do it right the first time. He might be reading from the Necronomicon so be warned… There might be Deadite shenanigans.
Jeroen and Sandra Kippers of Brussels, Belgium were lifted on a platform by crane up 160 feet in the air for their wedding ceremony. They were joined by the officiant and about 20 guests. Another platform held the musicians. After the vows, they made it official by bungee-jumping over the side!
The company behind the nutty nuptials – Marriage In The Sky – have been inundated with requests from couples desperate to fling themselves off the end of the aisle.
But the ultimate thrill-seekers’ wedding doesn’t have to end there – once the wedding party have all been lowered back to earth, guests can head skywards again – for a floating reception.
Wedding guests are wowed with a three-course wedding breakfast – all while strapped in to the dining chairs.
The cost for such a spectacular? Around £25,000. Link -via Unique Daily
(Image credit: Marriage in the Sky)
Previously (from the same company): Dinner in the Sky
