Atypical Events

Biggest Waste Ever: The Huge Money Spent on Hollywood Weddings and Other Parties

Posted by admin under Parties, Weddings

While most people would spend a good portion of their savings on a wedding (which makes sense if you’re a middle class American), the rich and famous choose to spend the same portion of money on their weddings. This decision, in some cases, can be well over a million dollars. Here are ten of the most ridiculously expensive weddings and other events people pay for:

1. Nicole
   Event: Sweet Sixteen
   Location: San Francisco, CA
   
   Nicole lives in both Hawaii and San Francisco and is obsessed with Christian Dior. Because of her obsession, she and her family decided to throw a French themed super sweet sixteen. The super sweet sixteen was outfitted with dancers that performed as though they had been with Cirque Du Soleil and rapper Keak da Sneak.Nicole was also undeservingly awarded a brand new white BMW.And the cost of this super sweet sixteen? $200,000.00.This event was filmed by MTV’s hit show Super Sweet Sixteen
   
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Moose wedding

Posted by jessie under Weddings

In north-central North Dakota, the mascot of the little town of Anamoose has gotten married. Joe the moose, the mascot on the sign leading into the town of Anamoose, has been united with his mate, Ana, in a mock wedding.

The mock wedding was held on Saturday June 28th to celebrate the adding of “Ana” moose to the town’s welcome sign. The wedding was done all in fun, with Ron Cartwright as Ana and Barb Martin as Joe.

Maury Becker, the “minister” at the wedding, officially declared Joe and Ana “miserable mates.” The moose couple the cut the wedding cake and handed out “moose droppings.” About 200 people from the 260-person town showed up to the wedding.

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Vegas-Style Weddings come to Sweden

Posted by jessie under Weddings

The Church of Sweden plans to start carrying out Vegas-style drive-in weddings that will be a mere seven minutes long.

The weddings will take place at a car rally next month in an effort to make weddings more accessible and less commercial.

Despite the high price of fuel, 36 couples plan to get married at the auto-enthusiast gathering in Vasteras in central Sweden.

The event aims to make weddings simpler and more down-to-earth, de-emphasizing the commercial aspect that weddings usually have.

Ten priests will be on-hand to marry the couples, who will be in a motorcade of 1950s and 1960s cars.

The event will have a huge neon sign that reads “Get Married,” so drivers will know where to go. Music for the event will consist of Elvis Presley songs performed by a gospel choir.

World’s Weirdest Wedding Customs

Posted by veronika under Weddings

All over the world, people practice numerous wedding customs that have been passed on through many generations. Although each has a long history of meaning and significance, many just seem strange and out of place in today’s culture.

Check out some of the historical wedding customs that are still practiced today, much to the intrigue and wonderment of its audience.

Blackening the Bride

In the Scottish pre-wedding tradition of “Blackening the Bride,” The bride is taken by surprise and covered with foul substances, such as eggs, various sauces, feathers, and well you name it…

The bride to be, officially blackened, is the then paraded around town, and of course a few pubs, for all to see.

Filmed in Fraserburgh and Rosehearty, in the north east of Scotland in 2007. A bride to be is subjected to a traditional ‘blackening’, one of the strangest of all pre-wedding traditions.

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