Saturday 24 September 2011

Here comes the bride and her TWO MILE train: Italian village brought to standstill by record-breaking wedding dress


This bride went a tiny bit over the top with her wedding dress with a train that takes some stopping.
They say it’s a day you should never forget – and that’s certainly the case for Italian bride Elena De Angelis and the village of Casal di Princice.
She has broken the world record for the longest wedding dress by arriving to the church with a mammoth, 3km (1.86 mile) long veil.

Hundreds of schoolgirls and their mothers turned out to help the bride-to-be along the streets of her village.
The Gianni Molaro designed cream dress, which is made from 6,000 metres of silk chord, is expected to be confirmed as the world’s longest by the Guinness book of Records.
 
It’s apparently 28 times the length of Manchester United's Old Trafford pitch and would take Usain Bolt running at blistering world recording pace almost five minutes to run its full length.
Driven to the church in a vintage car Elena was applauded by the entire village.
The veil literally stretched for miles and had to be carefully collected by designers after Elena arrived in the church.


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Friday 23 September 2011

A marriage Jim, but not as we know it: Lesbian couple celebrate civil ceremony with Star Trek-themed service


A lesbian couple has boldly gone where no-one has gone before and celebrated their civil partnership with a completely Star Trek-themed wedding.
Walking down the aisle dressed in matching white outfits modelled on hero Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Anita Bayliss and Margaret Wood are so obsessed with the cult television show they even forced loved-ones to dress up as characters at the ceremony in Swansea, South Wales.  
The couple met on an internet forum and from that shared passion for sci-fi they eventually decided to live long and prosper together by tying the knot.
To look their best on the day at Swansea City's Liberty Stadium the happy couple both got their unique outfits shipped in from Hong Kong.

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