Who doesn’t like a wedding? Well actually many people don’t but here are a few reasons why you should go anyway. Because you never know what you may find, love makes people do crazy things.
Some people are just too literal. This couple decided to take the plunge into marriage from 164 feet in the air, and even had the ceremony on a platform with 22 relatives and friends suspended along with them.
The guests were securely strapped to their chairs with tuxedos, dresses and all. The platform was slowly raised as the ceremony went on, until the entire assembly reached 164 feet in the air where Sandra Eens and Jeroen Kippers exchanged rings and took a leap of faith together. The entire wedding was done by Marriage in the Sky the same company that does Dinner in the Sky events.
We have two contenders for this one and you can decide which is more romantic.
The first comes to us from Fairborn, Ohio were co workers Tyree Henderson and Trisha Lynn Esteppe married at the McDonald’s where they met 3 years prior. The restaurant didn’t skip a beat as the wedding took place and customers came and went placing orders and eating their Big Macs. The lucky bride stated that, “she could not imagine a more romantic setting for their wedding”. Not sure which is worse the fact that she thought that was romantic or that they have worked there for 3 years.
Our second couple decided to tie the knot at their favorite fine dining establishment, Taco Bell. The bride and groom, Paul and Caragh Brooks wedded sitting in a booth while customers looked on. Instead of personalized mints they had hot sauce packets labeled “Will you marry me?” The saucy bride wore a $15 hot pink dress while a friend (who got ordained online) read the vows wearing a nice t-shirt. The two met online and were a step ahead as they already had the same last name. I guess that’s a good enough reason as any to get married at Taco Bell.
Stay classy guys!
This one is kind of creepy but once you get past the makeup it is not so bad, assuming you are not terrified of clowns of course.
Roadkill Raccoon and Reddish Raddish married at the Alberta Street Clown House, their non clown names are Carol Banner and Morgan Nilsen. Naturally the bride and groom love everything clown and decided to share that with everyone. Guests dressed up as clowns and had all kinds of activities that other weddings should have. Such as mud wrestling, mini bike tricks, and of course jousts. The couple ended the ceremony with a bike parade to the reception. A little strange but seems like lots of fun (again assuming you are not terrified of clowns).
Sometimes love makes you feel sky high, apparently that wasn’t enough for this couple that got married in mid air on top of several bi planes!
The activity known as “wing walking” was taken to another level when the British couple, 24-year-old Darren McWalters married his bride Katie Hodgson while the minister stood backwards on another plane and administered the ceremony. In total three bi planes were used, one for each person as they flew close together. All three of the participants were securely strapped complete with full tux and wedding dress. Everything was transmitted wirelessly and broadcast to the guests on the ground via a speaker system.
In a hurry to get married, then you might want to hit the road and try the hot rod wedding from Reverend Darrell Best.
The reverend turned a 1942-edition American La France fire engine into a mini chapel on wheels. The holy matrimony ride is complete with stained glass windows, pipe organ and even an altar for the special occasion. The fire engine fits everyone you need for the wedding; bride, groom, best man and maid of honor. Reverend Best charges a $200 fee plus $2 per mile for the ride and ceremony; he is located in Shelbyville Illinois. Honeymoons meanwhile are not allowed on the ride.
Who says weddings have to be pretty and fancy, how about dark and morbid? This couple took their love of the macabre and the relationship to the next level when they got married at a haunted house where they worked together.
Tina Milhoane 22 and Robert Seifer 24 married at 7 Floors of Hell in the haunted house’s cemetery. Everyone dressed the part with the groom making his entrance in a hearse and coming out of a coffin to his beloved bride. The bride meanwhile still dressed in white with a splash of red added to mimic the character Carrie. The minister also played his part as the Grim Reaper and even read the Lord’s Prayer to the audience.
Ah sometimes marriage can be sink or swim, for some its sink, swim and scuba. But forget just getting married while you scuba dive, how about staying in an underwater hotel.
You can make it all happen at the Jules Undersea Lodge where you can make your underwater adventure come true. For a mere 1750.00 plus tax you can have this lodge all to yourself and even stay there for the honeymoon. Guests scuba dive to the underwater lodge and have plenty of room to relax with two bedrooms, dining area, kitchen and living area. The lodge is located in Key Largo Florida and is 21 feet underwater.
Looking to let your vows hang loose? Then a nudist wedding may be for you. Just think you don’t have to worry about a tux or wedding dress and your wedding pictures will be very popular.
Many people do this every year from Dallas TX, to Australia, but one of the most well known places to have a nude wedding is at the Hedonism III Resort in Runaway Bay, St. Ann. On Valentine’s Day in 2003, 29 couples exchanged vows in the buff making it one of the largest nude weddings ever. The resort provides everything free of charge with a minimum four night stay. No word yet if Viagra is available as party favors.
Think marriage stinks? It certainly did for this couple who got married at the Bethel Transfer Station where the couple Rockie Graham and Dave Hart first met. Rockie Graham was recycling when she caught a dirty look from Dave and three years later they were married in this garbage dump with 250 of their closest friends. The bride wore a $7000 white dress with the dump as the picture perfect background.
The idea came from Dave who wanted to exchange vows where they originally met. Rockie stated she was “reluctant” at first but eventually gave in to Dave’s idea. Now that is compromise, but I suppose if you are going to start a lifelong relationship in a dump you can only go up from there.
Finally we have a wedding that was a first ever.
A Nepalese couple actually got married on the peak of Mount Everest the first ever in history. Pem Dorjee and Moni Mulepati made it to the top as part of the Rotary Centennial Everest Expedition and kept their plan a secret until the last minute since they didn’t know if they would make it all the way. The couple spent a mere 10 minutes at the peak and briefly took off their oxygen masks to exchange vows while friends took pictures. There have been couples in the past who have tried to make the same trip but none have been able to make it so far until now.
Golden rule of weddings is the couple's whims are law. On the other hand…
Golden rule of weddings is DON’T!!!!
Seriously at mcdonalds oh and 222222
I see a perfectly good Stetson in picture #2. Aahhh…the decadence…
A good follow up to “Bizarre Dating Websites”. It shouldn’t be long before a divorce list.
Fun list. If, God forbid, I ever get married, it will most definitely won’t be in my home town. I do not think I am adventurous enough (actually stupid enough) to get married in a dump. The bungee jump wedding is a great idea though. I would consider that.
Now who is going for marriage in Space…..
wow! cool list!
nude marriage is cool!
The Wedding on Wheels was adorable, and I give the Taco Bell bride credit for the hot sauce packs. Cute list!
The only one that i think was cute was #1: Mount Everest. That’s too much effort to get married! Don’t you think …
All the remaining ones are really bizzare!
Anywhere in Las Vegas…
Once proposed at a “Burger King”, myself…
is marrying in a jungle unusual?
i find the underwater marriage not so bizarre
i’d like so see a marriage in a prostitute place (whatever you call that) or a strip bar
Aww, at least they all got what they wanted.
Oh, and in this day and age of global recession there must be far worse things one could do than work at McDonalds y’know? At least it pays the bills!
@Rufus (13): a prostitute place is called a *****.
nude weddings are so golden. (if you know what I mean by golden. ^_~
Cool list. Never knew that you can be married while in nude.
LOLz!
@DenzeLL (16): I am scared to think!
The guy holding the disposable camera in #9 seems to be having a better time than the happy couple.
A nude wedding would reveal who the “best” man was!
I had a friend marry his girl at the place where he met her – a strip club! She was a waitress and he was a, well you can figure it out. Half of the wedding party were *****s! I didn’t realize it until these scantilly clad girls’ names would be called and they would get up from the table, take off all of thier clothes, and jump up on the stage! Needless to say, my wife didn’t appreciate my enthusiasm.
I was married in the Roman Catholic Church in 1996. Me and my wife both traveled there just to get married.
Not that original? Our first anniversary was spent in the Canadian coniferous forests.
What about getting married on a roller coaster? I’ve seen that. And I seem to recall a skydiving wedding, too.
The best would be the couple marrying in bed and getting right to it….after the guests and clergy leave, of course.
Cool list, flores88. I like the idea of non-traditional marriages. It gives a great start to life together. Fun, romantic, bizarre.
I always wanted to have mine in the woods…kinda like a fairy tale type one.
@astraya (21): …and the bride saying “I think I’ll marry him instead.”
@That Guy From Pennsylvania (24): I’ve seen the roller coaster one too. It was very neat. As for getting married in bed…it’s was done. Saw it on a special once. I think it was in Japan…and everyone was naked as well. Good start!
Good for them! I hatehatehatehate weddings and all that the “traditional” wedding has become. We eloped to Vegas and gave our family and friends a web address and they watched us get married on the internet.
There was a couple in Denmark who got married in a discount supermarket. The slogan of that chain is “it only takes 5 minutes” and the couple wanted a quick wedding…
I don’t know if the nudist wedding is THAT bizarre, but I certainly would not want anyone else to see my future wife naked.
Proofread. For the love of God, proofread.
I got married a few weeks ago, in a comic book store. No, we didn’t dress up. It was a blast.
Nice list.
I think there’s something to be said for traditional weddings. People are so worried about one-upping and making a statement that they almost forget why they’re getting married in the first place. My cousin and his fiancee (now wife) own a healing crystals shop and are pretty much two throwbacks to the 60′s. We all expecred their wedding to be on a field somewhere while she wore cotton and flowers and the smell of patchouli hung in the air. They got married in a very traditional fashion in a park under a gazebo and she wore Donna Karen. It was lovely.
I heard some guy in South America got married at a circus. But I read that in a kids magazine a very long time ago.
Granted, if I ever get married (I’m still in my teens) I want to get married at Comic Con. Just dress up as, oh, I don’t know, Princess Leia or Blind Mag from Repo! The Genetic Opera and my fiance could be wearing a Spock costume or something. I am such a dork.
@astraya (21):
Astraya, you DO crack me up!
@callie19 (31):
I agree. It seems like suddenly a traditional wedding is almost something to look down on. I had a “traditional” wedding and it was one of the best nights of my life. We got married in a Church and then proceeded to party until past 5 in the morning… I wouldnt trade it for the world.
To each his own, I guess…
There’s a donut shop in Portland, Oregon (I think) called Voodoo Donuts, and they marry people there in the store. I was surprised not to see it on this list.
My wife and I met at McDonald’s because we both worked there (for 5 years). As a joke I suggested the McD’s wedding. She said if I made her do it they wouldn’t find my body. Needless to say we got married at a Roman Catholic mass.
Also, in Nashville they have the Preston Hotel. It’s the only place I’ve ever heard that has wedding AND divorce packages for their guests! “The I do, I did, I’m done!” WAS a package they had that included 2 separate rooms, a reserved meeting room, and a lawyer of your choice, but alas it expired in January and don’t carry it anymore.
http://www.dealbase.com/Nashville/Hotel-Preston-deals/Divorce-Pkg–Legal-Mediation-6145
Good list. All these people are retarded
Just when you think human kind has a chance, you see things like these…
Wow… on top of Mt. Everest! In orbit would be nice too, or on the moon.
But i find natural weddings the best. A.K.A. out in the fresh open.
All in the name of love |
that would be awesome to get married on mt everest
All of em pretty good…except the garbage one. Thats freakin stupid.
I have heard of a World Of Warcraft marriage
Nudist wedding no. 3
Where does the bestman keep the rings ? mmmm food for thought !
#8 are definitely jugalos
While not “officially” a wedding that occurred in outer space, this couple decided to wed in a zero-G environment:
http://kotaku.com/5299179/watch-lord-british-officiate-zero+g-wedding
i wouldnt mind a wedding in mid air, its just that you wouldnt be able to hear anything
@psychosurfer (38): Two years ago when I started listverse I thought that. Now I don’t.
@undaunted warrior (44): zing!
My niece got married two years ago today at a funeral home. No joke. It sounds bizarre, but she works at a funeral home, her father owns it, it’s right by her house, and it all worked out. They were going to have it outdoors, but it rained the day before and the ground was too wet (we still had the reception outdoors). A lot of people were uncomfortable with the funeral home, but I went along with it as a bridesmaid. Heck, I had fun taking a pair of pictures in the casket room. No, the only witnesses at the event were living.
My wedding next year won’t top that, but at least hers will always be memorable.
@diamond dragon (28):
just hope the best man hasnt already!
I love the one where the couple was married on the wings of the planes-Doesn’t get much cooler than that-(No pun intended)–I’m a little doubtful about #1 actually being true.
only one that is cool is number 1 the rest are lame!
i think that the couple that got married at the dump was trying to hard to be ironic and the people that got married at the seven floors of hell or death or whatever probably horrified their families.
Cool list. I should try one of these when I get married.
@Kay (55): You should try something completely different – then you might end up on one of these lists
@Jael
I agree with the Spock bit! Im a dork too ^.^ And I love Repo! But personally I think it’d be more hysterical if the groom was dressed like Spock and the bride like Amber Sweet. lol
Kay-JFrater is right…How about getting NASA to let you and the groom get married on a space shuttle orbiting the earth?-I don’t believe that’s been done-I don’t know what state or country you would get your license in though-haha-Florida,I guess-
@Jael
I also am a dork, and a super dork because I’m also female. A scifi wedding like that sounds like a lot of fun!
I’ve thought about going celtic and making my husband to be wear a kilt, along with all of his friends. No pants at my wedding.
I had the same dress as the girl in #5, only with black trim instead of red. It was beautiful! Very popular style from David’s Bridal that season (it was on the front of their magazine and everything). So, yeah, not that unusual a dress. Also, neat to see it up there. A few of these I wouldn’t have turned down if I’d been in the situation. Looking back, I kind of wish we’d married at the waterfall where he proposed, but I don’t think most of the family could have made the hike. Still, it would have been lovely.