Welcome to the first Friday of June and TGIF! In the spirit of fun Friday funnies, here’s a few oddball tales of marriage that sound too weird to be true – but too strange to be false!
From News of the Weird:
Janet Downs thinks she has found the secret for a happy marriage; she’s marrying herself on her 40th birthday. The Bellevue, Nebraska woman says the wedding ceremony celebrates that she is happy with herself and plans to exchange vows with herself in the mirror. The ceremony will also include a wedding gown, flowers, a traditional cake and a choir.
From The Mammoth Book of Oddities:
Of the many marriages of inanimate objects that have taken place in Japan, few have equaled the splendor of the one, which united two kimonos in Kyoto in 1934. In this wedding, solemnized with full Shinto rites and celebrated with an elaborate banquet – the bride was a renowned 232-year-old silk garment and the groom a distinguished 110-year-old cotton robe. The invitations were so highly prized that they have virtually become museum pieces.
From Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader series:
An unusual wedding took place in 1936 in Surat, India. Wearing pearls and diamonds worth a fortune, the couple were joined in matrimony in a Hindu temple by a high-caste priest. Thousands witnessed the ceremony and hundreds attended the wedding banquet for the happy bride and groom – a pair of monkeys.
In ancient times, young girls who died may have been married before their funerals in order to assure that the cycles of fertility were not broken.
What odd tales of marriage and wedding ceremonies have you heard?