Nude wedding or nude wedding
The first exhibitionists officially mentioned in the media who decided to approach the altar wearing what their mother gave birth to were Australians Ella Barton and Phil Hendicot. Newlyweds believe that “a wedding is a new period of life, during which you should not take anything from the past with you, including clothes.” During the wedding ceremony (which took place in front of 250 spectators), the only “clothes” the newlyweds wore were rings. Oh yes, Mrs. Ella decided at the last minute to add a long veil to her outfit and take a wedding bouquet of white roses. And Mr. Phil covered with a black top hat... well, you know what. After the Australians, newlyweds in different parts of the world began to shock others in a similar way.
The strangest weddings in the world: unusual ideas for couples
Not all newlyweds want a standard modern wedding. Currently, there are more and more daredevils who are not afraid to stand out and want their wedding day to remain in memory as something very bright and unusual.
Painting in the air
Airspace is one of the most romantic and at the same time unusual places for a ceremony. In 2013, American couple Noah Fulmore and Erin Finnegan got married on board an airplane. The plane flew over America, and the newlyweds and their guests celebrated such a wonderful event, being in a state of weightlessness, which was easily arranged for them by an experienced pilot of the plane.
And another strange wedding in the air was that of a couple from Britain, Justin Bunn and Caroline Hackwood, who organized the celebration while flying on the roof of biplanes. Three planes and a priest were used for the ceremony. Such a wedding will definitely be remembered by the young people for the rest of their lives.
Wedding underwater
A wedding ceremony organized under water looks very unusual and impressive. Thus, a nice couple from Las Vegas, Charlene and David, got married in a huge aquarium of the casino hotel. Do you think the bride chose a ridiculous wedding dress that is not too bad for such a ceremony? Absolutely not! The exchange of rings, a chic wedding dress, a photographer - everything went just like at a regular wedding.
Another couple from New York was brave and decided to hold their ceremony underwater with live sharks. The groom wore a black wetsuit instead of a tuxedo, and the bride, accordingly, wore a white suit. The lovers were placed in a cage and lowered to the bottom with sharks. The priest performed the wedding ceremony behind glass. The bride had to change her hair several times, but her makeup remained unchanged thanks to the mask. But ceremonies with sharks are far from the strangest weddings!
Wedding in a shoe store
What could be more original than on-site registration at a retail outlet? That's what a wonderful couple from the USA thought, who decided to hold their wedding ceremony in the TJ Maxx shoe store, where they once met. The bride considers this place her happy place.
Ceremony on an Alaskan glacier
As you already understand, ceremonies under water or in air are not the strangest weddings in the world. Who would dare to get married on a glacier? Of course, a guide from the Alpine Institute. Two lovers Chad and Katie did just that, because the mountains introduced them. The wedding ceremony took place in the mountainous region of Alaska, where the couple's witnesses and a photographer gathered. The newlyweds and their friends spent four whole days in the rocks and only then went down the glacier to civilization, where they continued the general celebration.
Wedding in the sky or parachute for a wedding
Brussels jumpers Jerome and Sandra Kippers decided to jump from a height of approximately 50 meters (160 feet) on their wedding day. But before the jump, they managed to say vows, which were recorded by the priest and 20 invited guests. The platform with the ceremony participants was lifted into the air using a cargo crane. All guests (to comply with safety precautions) were fastened to chairs with belts.
Amazing but true! After this ceremony (which half of Brussels had the opportunity to watch), the company that organized the wedding show was literally inundated with applications! And the price of the event increased to 25,000 euros.
Strange weddings in Russia: top 5 unusual ceremonies
Not only foreign couples decide on such unusual wedding traditions. In Russia, the number of couples who decide to organize a strange wedding is growing every year. We present to you five of the most distinguished celebrations.
Kayak wedding
A wedding celebration looks very romantic not only under, but also on the water. This is how young people from St. Petersburg Elena and Evgeniy organized their ceremony. In 2021, the couple celebrated their wedding by sailing on a boat along the rivers and canals of their hometown. Everything went like a fairy tale: the bride in a white dress, guests and a photographer sailing with the newlyweds in kayaks. At the end of the journey, the bride threw her wedding bouquet straight from the boat. Everyone was happy, and the townspeople congratulated the young people and shouted “bitterly” to them.
Wedding on bicycles
Planning a celebration on bicycles is a rather strange decision, unless you are completely immersed in the world of cycling. A couple from Moscow, Serey and Maria, celebrated their wedding on bicycles. The registry office employees were surprised when they saw the bride in a wedding dress and the groom in a suit, as well as a large bicycle column consisting of 100 cyclist guests. Everything was decorated with ribbons and balls. This ceremony will be remembered by everyone for many years.
Painting in space
In 2003, the world's first wedding in space took place. The bride Ekaterina agreed to such an adventure, which was planned by her fiance, ISS commander Yuri. On the wedding day, the couple was not together: the groom was in space, and the bride, oddly enough, was on earth. Ekaterina and Yuri celebrated their engagement via teleconference, and the bride took pictures with a cardboard cutout of her husband so that there would be at least some wedding photos. Bold and unusual!
Marriage during a parachute jump
Strange weddings in Russia are not limited to boats and bicycles. Sergey and Inna are professional skydivers, and they recently organized a celebration right during a jump from a height of 4 kilometers. The couple had long been burning with the idea of holding the ceremony in this way. Witnesses also jumped along with the newlyweds. Preparation for the beautiful acrobatic jump took 3 months. After landing, Sergei and Inna walked through the corridor of parachutists and were in seventh heaven.
Wedding with a hearse
Quite recently, the wedding of the strange couple Ksenia Sobchak and Konstantin Bogomolov took place. The stars organized a rather unusual wedding, contrary to all traditions and foundations. After painting at the registry office in shocking outfits, the couple went for a walk around the city in a gloomy hearse with the inscription “Till death do us part.” Ksenia's witness, a designer friend, also distinguished himself, striking everyone with his strange outfit. The guests were not embarrassed by such a celebration, but it caused a storm of emotions in society.
Every couple in love wants to celebrate their wedding in a bright and original way, as well as with strange pre-wedding traditions. The Svadbaholik.ru portal reminds you that you don’t need to succumb to public influence when organizing a wedding. A ceremony organized the way you want is the best!
A 180-meter-long wedding train or the world's longest wedding dress train
A resident of Guangzhou (China) decided to set a new world record on her wedding day. She wore a custom-made dress with a train 219 meters long. All the guests helped carry the wedding dress to the ceremony site, and the wedding train stretched for almost 200 meters!
Unfortunately, this dress did not reach the record. Since, according to the Guinness Book, a resident of Cyprus got married in a dress with the longest train (1362 m), in February 2007. Nevertheless, an outfit with a multi-meter openwork tail is a top seller among extreme brides.
Entertainment at a wedding
Entertainment is the key to a good mood for guests. Ordinary competitions are already unoriginal, although you can’t do without them. The more guests are involved in the process, the better. For example, you can entertain guests with a master class on rolling cigars for a themed wedding or teach new dance elements.
In the new wedding season, the nitrogen show has also become very popular - when guests break a nitrogen-frozen rose into fragments or hammer nails with bananas.
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Wedding at work
How often do we hear wonderful love stories like this: “I went to the store to buy a new pair of shoes (a book, milk, an antique lamp), and I saw Him there! My world immediately turned upside down! I fell in love at first sight!” We hear something similar from men. But the couple Lisa and Drew Satose (Michigan, USA) decided to legalize their relationship in their “happy place”, a shoe store where the newly made groom had previously worked. The bride was dressed in a beautiful strapless chiffon dress, long black gloves and... green Roman sandals, which her husband had previously sold!
However, walking around the world you can meet more than one couple of eccentrics who share the theory of a “happy meeting place” with Lisa and Drew.
The most original, unusual and funny weddings
Marrying yourself
When Gabrielle Penabas broke up with her boyfriend in 2000, in order not to think about him, she organized a wedding for herself: she invited guests, put on a white dress, a wedding ring and took an oath of fidelity to herself. Since then, Gabrielle has become the organizer of such solo weddings and assures that although such marriages have not yet been legalized anywhere in the world, they bring enormous relief to single women. After all, when they make an oath to themselves that they will never call themselves scary, then a new life begins for them.
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But Dominique Yukepas even built her own business in solo wedding ceremonies; she opened a consultation center, which for 10 weeks for $200 prepares for a wedding on one’s own. One of her clients spent $12,000 to throw herself a fairytale wedding after breaking up with her partner.
However, it is not only women who arrange such desperate weddings. In 2007, Chinese Liu Ye came to the conclusion that it was better to marry oneself than to remain single. The “bride” was a cardboard copy of him, dressed in a traditional Chinese red wedding dress.
Pizza Bride
A guy from Tomsk, who recently turned 22, decided to marry pizza, because he was already tired of being alone. But he didn’t look for a girl, because from the experience of his friends he realized that love is unpredictable, and only the love of food can be eternal. And although the guy with the pizza bride was not allowed into the registry office, he returned to the pizzeria where his beloved was prepared and arranged a ceremony with a photo shoot there.
cat wife
After a lonely German postman learned that his cat was terminally ill, he decided to marry her so that she would not die alone. And when the local registry office refused the “groom,” he hired an actress who played the role of a priest and married him to a cat.
Eiffel Tower instead of husband
Love at first sight happened between former soldier Erica and the Eiffel Tower. For several years in a row, the woman came to see her love, but in 2008 she decided to marry the famous tower and even changed her last name to La Tour Effel.
Underwater wedding or scuba wedding
Surely, you won’t surprise anyone with a divers’ wedding these days. Many companies that organize special ceremonies provide, among other things. Moreover, with a completely calm expression on his face. And the divers themselves have even learned to dance underwater!
Who will dare to repeat their act? Not until you take the risk? Would you like to see the underwater world and its inhabitants in your wedding photographs? There is an interesting, and in fact, 100% safe option for you! Stationary glass underwater aquarium!
You can also arrange an underwater photo shoot (though in a safe place and without scuba gear). It will turn out very cool and beautiful! Or just by the water...
Dita von Teese and Marilyn Manson: gothic wedding
Dita Von Teese and Marilyn Manson got married in November 2005.
The gothic and dramatic wedding in the style of the 19th century of the burlesque diva Dita von Teese and the “great and terrible” Marilyn Manson became one of the most unusual. Dita wanted a traditional wedding in a church... But Manson, who is considered a follower of the cult of black magic, decided that he would not be welcome in the church. So the civil wedding ceremony took place at Dita's house in Los Angeles. Irish Isabella Skylar was invited as a priest (Dita found her on the Internet and liked her interesting name). The woman with the interesting name did not have a robe. “Yes, change her into the papal chasuble, my God, my God!” - Manson begged and offered Isabella his own - from the 2000 Guns, God and Government tour (note by Woman.ru: when the musician wore it in Rome, he was arrested). Someone chooses the Mendelssohn march, while Manson and Von Teese turned on rap. “We listened to a bunch of rap songs when we were dating. They are so funny,” the bride recalled. Then Manson played Tiger Lillies: “I think getting married to this song is much better!”
The real performance, which followed the official part, began in the historical Irish county of Tippererry - in a castle that belonged to a friend of the bride and groom - the Austrian-Irish photographer and artist Gottfried Helnwein. Von Teese wore a purple Vivienne Westwood dress and Neil Lane jewelry. Manson wears a pirate-style tuxedo by John Galliano. “True pirates of our day with a real love for fashion,” commented Galliano, pleased with the way his creation fit the groom. Everything was “stylish and dramatic,” Vogue would later write.
“We just love what others would hate us for. “I’m not nervous, I feel very happy,” Marilyn Manson admitted before the wedding.
The wedding was celebrated all weekend. It all started with the bride and groom pronouncing their vows, which were written for them by Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky. For Jodorowsky there was not a crucifix, but... a stuffed peacock and a portrait of Marlene Dietrich by Helwein. The newlyweds kissed to the choral version of John Lennon's Across the Universe.
Dita's second dress was a black outfit from Moschino. The creative director of the house, Rosella Jardini, listened to the wishes of her unconventional client, who wanted to look like “a lady of the 40s who came to court to get married and then immediately goes to war.” The outfit was complemented by a pecan muff (note by Woman.ru: a pecan is not only a nut, but also an animal of the mustelid family with beautiful dark fur), with orchids pinned to it. Manson himself wore a tight-fitting Hedi Slimane Dior tuxedo and looked like the owner of a funeral home. The table in the hall was covered with ruby-colored vases with four thousand crimson roses, from which florist Haley Newstead arranged bouquets in the form of huge volcanic eruptions. Black and gold candles in the shape of skulls and a live fire in the fireplace created the atmosphere. By the way, the guests were dressed in the style of the last century and looked no less impressive. Johnny Depp, Lisa Marie-Presley, Jean-Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Vivienne Westwood and many others came to congratulate von Teese and Manson.
The bride and groom also took care of the interior. The black and pink kitchen was designed in the style of the 50s, and the living room reminded guests of horror films. Four Devon Rex cats strolled past children's mannequins from 1920s stores, medical school skeletons, a stuffed two-headed lamb, wooden prosthetic legs from World War II, a Manson Venetian mask and Johnny Depp's wig from the movie "Cocaine."
Dita changed clothes two more times: into a black velvet Jean Paul Gaultier dress for the Dublin shrimp dinner, and into a tight Dior dress with a beaded peacock buckle for dancing. Christian Louboutin, who created 12 pairs of shoes for Dita’s wedding, noted that the celebration reminded him of the film “Death of the Gods” by Luchino Visconti. The next day, guests drank Bloody Mary cocktails and had fun hunting: shooting owls and hawks. Manson donned a Louis Vuitton troubadour cape, while Dita looked like Agatha Christie in a Moschino plaid coat and feathered top hat.
The show's masters succeeded in the luxurious celebration, but the family idyll was too much for them. Dita Von Teese and Marilyn Manson, who dated for six years before their wedding, divorced in 2006, a year after their wedding.
Wedding on bicycles
Our compatriots also hastened to surprise the world. They decided to make their vows of fidelity while riding their bikes! However, there are plenty of admirers of environmentally friendly modes of transport in the world! We recorded “bicycle weddings” in Britain, Finland, and Sweden.
9) Wedding in the rain - a romantic holiday for two
There is a sign that if it rains on your wedding day, the marriage will be happy.
. If this is so, then Hernil Roisol and Rem Campo from the Philippines will be the happiest couple in the world, since on their wedding day there was not just a downpour, but a real flood.
Photos from this “wet wedding” spread all over the Internet. The couple got married in the flooded church of St. Antonia de Palua Parish in the city of Manila in the Philippines is in the midst of a monsoon downpour.
Just before the big day, the bride, a primary school teacher, prayed to God that the rain would stop on her wedding day. Obviously, her prayers were not heard by heaven, but the wedding took place anyway, and the newlyweds look very happy in the photo
. They decided that they would be as adamant as the rains.
Keira Knightley and James Righton: a very modest wedding
28-year-old actress Keira Knightley and 29-year-old musician James Righton, contrary to the expectations of the press, did not turn their wedding into a social reception. Only 11 of the couple's closest friends and relatives were present at the official ceremony.
Kira and James legalized their relationship in the mayor's office of the French town of Mazan, which is located 12 km from Marseille. The choice of place was not accidental, because next to it there is an old estate owned by the famous bride, whose fortune is estimated at more than 30 million pounds sterling (note Woman.ru: about 1.5 billion rubles). It was there that the newlyweds continued to celebrate an important event for them on a grand scale: 50 people were invited to dinner in honor of the wedding of Knightley and Righton - including actress Sienna Miller and musicians of the band Klaxons, in which, as you know, the newly-made husband plays. The latter, in addition, provided the musical component of the holiday.
There was a lot of talk surrounding the actress's wedding dress. At some point, tired of the endless questions, she even stated in an interview that she would get married in a T-shirt and jeans, but, fortunately, it didn’t come to that.
Practical Kira decided not to waste money on an outfit that she would most likely never wear again, and chose a meek tulle dress from Rodarte. True, being closely associated with the cult brand Chanel, Knightley did not forget about the classic tweed jacket, which successfully complemented the light image of the star bride. The star chose ballet flats over high heels, and a neat wreath over a long veil. Indeed, why arrange a “feast for the whole world” if it is already clear to everyone that you simply love each other?
Evelina Bledans and Alexander Semin: wedding according to the laws of the island
42-year-old actress and TV presenter Evelina Bledans and 33-year-old producer Alexander Semin got married in December 2011 on the island of Mauritius. Since both the bride and groom are creative people and endowed with a good sense of humor, the wedding turned out to be exotic.
The couple decided to hold the ceremony according to local customs. Evelina was wearing a wedding dress for pregnant women, made especially for her by designer Olga Rusan. Alexander chose for himself the image of either a servant or a slave. Bledans and Semin arrived at their own wedding not in a banal limousine, but in a golf cart with a pineapple tied to the hood. On the way they were accompanied by acrobats and jugglers. The couple also abandoned the usual cake in favor of a more appropriate watermelon, from the pulp of which the deft chef carved figures of the newlyweds.
The bride and groom, who by that time was 6 months pregnant, decided that such formalities as wedding rings would not be useful to them either, so they sealed the union with vows of love, fidelity and... blood, pricking their fingers with cactus needles.
A few months after the wedding, the couple had a son, Semyon. For Evelina Bledans, this marriage was the third (note Woman.ru: the first husband is the host of the show “Pun” Yuri Stytskovsky; the second husband is businessman Dmitry from Israel), but Alexander tied the knot of Hymen for the first time. Evelina and Alexander met on the set of the series “Manipulator”, where Alexander acted as director and producer. At the same time, the couple had an office romance that ended in an original wedding.
Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz: Alice in Wonderland themed wedding
Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz and singer Ashlee Simpson got married in May 2008. They threw a wedding party in the style of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Especially for the celebration, Ashley's parents' house was decorated in red and black. The bridesmaids - who included the bride's sister, Jessica Simpson - wore black dresses. Even the roses specially brought from Ecuador were black. So the wedding turned out to be a fatal version of “Alice in Wonderland.”
Ashlee Simpson chose an ivory dress from Monique Lhuillier and a long veil for the ceremony. The father led the bride to the groom to the song “Black Bird” by The Beatles. Wentz later admitted that Ashley walked into the room like a girl from a movie. The rings were carried out to the bride and groom by their English bulldog named Hemingway, who played the role of the Cheshire Cat. The three-tier wedding cake was a top hat with a clock and a tea cup on it. Ashley changed into a black dress and the dancing began. The first was performed by the newlyweds to the song “First Day of My Life” by Bright Eyes. At parting, guests were given cakes with the inscription “Eat me!”
The party continued in the garden. Under white awnings, bottles of cocktails with the words “Drink Me!” were placed on the tables, as well as giant cups, teapots and saucers decorated with scarlet roses and hot pink hydrangeas. Sushi and mini-burgers were laid out on trays shaped like playing cards. The newlyweds sat on heart-shaped chairs.
When all the guests had left, Pete took his wife to a tent on the hill behind the house. He decorated it with candles in advance, scattered pillows on the floor and brought ingredients for making S'mores - a favorite camping dish for American teenagers - marshmallows, crackers and chocolate. Pete and Ashley cooked their dessert over the fire (note Woman.ru: marshmallows are roasted over the fire and placed between cookies and chocolate), admired the stars and waited for the birth of their son, who was born a few months later. Simpson and Wentz divorced in early 2011. In the column about the reason for the divorce, Ashley indicated the standard wording - “irreconcilable differences.”
Leonid Agutin and Angelica Varum: wedding - music video
Leonid Agutin and Anzhelika Varum, who have been together for 15 years, met long before the first rumors about their romance arose. In the early 1990s, when Leonid was a young promising singer whose career was just gaining momentum, he communicated a lot about his work with producer Yuri Varum. In 1994, Agutin even joked in a conversation with him: “Can you imagine if your daughter and I suddenly get married!” However, Yuri did not appreciate the joke, because he saw the role of groom for his daughter, a smart and beautiful woman, not at all a novice performer: “This is so stupid that I don’t even want to talk about this topic.” If Yuri Ignatievich knew then that after 3 years his daughter and Leonid would have a creative union, which would later develop into a marriage, and in 1999 their daughter Lisa would be born!
Angelica Varum and Leonid Agutin got married in Venice on July 18, 2001. Leonid Agutin himself recalls this decision as follows: “We lived together, we already had Lizka, and I proposed getting married. Angelica, as expected, flirted, but I insisted on my own. We spent 10 days in Venice in the company of a very small circle of friends who filmed it all on photo and video tape. Every morning I forced Angelique to get up at six in the morning and go to St. Mark’s Square to film while there were no people.”
Of course, the bride did not immediately like the idea of a music video: after all, a wedding is a very personal event. But Agutin made an argument that is difficult to resist, especially since time has shown that he was right: “Darling, 10 years will pass, I will play you this video, and you will cry!” The video for the song “Half a Heart,” where happy Agutin and Varum walk around Venice in original wedding dresses made by designer Alisa Tolkacheva and are not shy about their feelings, has become mega-popular. In it, Angelica first appeared in a fluffy white dress, decorated with large red flowers, and scarlet gloves, and then she changed into an elongated jacket, short tight-fitting (reminiscent of underwear) shorts and a snow-white hat with a veil. Leonid was wearing a matching tailcoat over his naked body, trousers and a top hat. Agree, quite original wedding dresses. Thus, for the first time, Russian artists connected creativity and relationships so closely that they either got married while filming a video, or shot a video about their wedding. Angelica later joked that her husband used her to film the video.
