Monday, March 02, 2009

oddly enough weddings

Monday, March 02, 2009

Kanjana Ketkaew, 35, (R) with scorpions on her gown, kisses her groom Bunthawee Sengwong, 29, with a centipede in his mouth, during their wedding ceremony on Valentine's Day in the Thai resort town of Pattaya, about 130 km (80 miles) southeast of Bangkok February 14, 2006. Kanjana holds a world record for staying in a plastic cage with 3,400 scorpions for 32 days. Her husband holds a world record for staying in a cage with 1,000 centipedes for 28 days.


Grooms carrying their brides run during a mini marathon celebrating the New Year in Sanya, south China's Hainan province, January 2, 2007.


Minature poodles Rambo and Josie attend their "wedding ceremony" to mark the upcoming Valentine's day in Bangkok on February 10, 2003. Many "newlywed animals" including rabbits, roosters and hens attended the event.


Ekaterina Dmitriev (R) poses with a life-size cut-out of her bridegroom, Yuri Malenchenko (L), at a press conference following her satellite wedding to the orbiting space station Commander, August 10, 2003 in Houston. The state of Texas allows weddings where one party is absent and the pair exchanged vows via satellite hook-up at NASA during weekly designated family teleconference time.


A Japanese couple, Takahiko Kawada (L), who works for Japan Coast Guard and Harue Suzuki, walks during their wedding ceremony in the dolphin's aquarium at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama, south of Tokyo September 25, 2005. The aquarium was rented for a wedding ceremony for 320,000 yen ($2845).


Yevgeni Okayevich (R) and his bride Galina Grann ride their motorbikes during their wedding in central Kiev July 5, 2008. Picture taken July 5, 2008.


A Chinese woman wearing a 60-metre-long bridal gown shares a moment with her partner in a park in Binzhou, east China's Shandong province, August 2, 2005. It took 20 workers more than four months to finish the gown. Photo taken August 2, 2005.


Indian villagers hold two toads decorated with flowers and vermilion during their wedding ceremony at Khochakandar. Two toads decorated with flowers and vermilion go through a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony at Khochakandar, 365 km (225 miles) north of Calcutta, June 5, 2005. The 5000 Indian Rupees ($115) ceremony was held by Indian villagers hoping to propitiate the rain gods and end a dry spell. Some 400 people cheered and blew conches as women put streaks of vermilion on the female toad's head while a band played music and priests solemnised the marriage to the chanting of Hindu hymns.

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