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A wedding is one of the most important and special
moments in one's life, even if it is a wedding for animals.Sounds
outlandish? But they do happen around the world. Like Dogs barked "I do"
in Peru, as canine companions were given the chance to marry any pooch
who peked their fancy.
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Dogs Get Married In Lima, Peru
Dogs barked "I do" in Peru, as canine companions were given the chance
to marry any pooch who peked their fancy. As dog is your witness, these
pooches sealed their union with a kiss , as owners carried their
critters up to the altar. The dogs were given a marriage certificate for
declaring such commitment, with each pooch pressing an inky paw onto a
piece of paper. |
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Yorkshire Terriers Wed In Brazil
A pair of Brazilian dog lovers have spent almost £6,000 on a lavish
wedding for their pet Yorkshire Terriers. Surrounded by more than 200
dog-lovers and their pooches, the bride Bruna, 5, and her two-year-old
groom Lui barked their vows before planting their paws on the official
registry documents. Then it was time to pose for photographs in front of
a right dog's dinner: the cake specially made of canine food. Such a
feast risked ruining the bride's custom-made £270 wedding dress and the
groom's elegant tuxedo after the ceremony, which was held at a pet shop
in the Barra da Tijuca neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro. Bruna's owner
Raquel Mendes admitted to ulterior motives while planning their
honeymoon. |
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Sacred cow Ganga and marries Prakash the bull
A cow and a bull have been married off in a lavish Indian wedding -
costing £10,000. More than 5,000 villagers turned up to watch sacred cow
Ganga and Prakash get hitched during the Hindu ceremony held near Indore
in Madya Pradesh. The nuptials were organised by Ganga's guardian, Gopal
Patwari, to save the state's harvest from a 'natural disaster'.According
to Mr Patwari: 'Natural calamities like hailstorms and heavy rain
occurred in nearby areas, destroying their crops,' he said. 'To prevent
this from happening to our villages we organised this wedding on the
advice of Sadhus and holy men. 'We have been told this will maintain
peace in our village.' |
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Indian woman marries cobra in Hindu wedding
A woman who fell in love with a snake has married the reptile at a
traditional Hindu wedding celebrated by 2,000 guests in India's Orissa
state, reports said. Bimbala Das wore a silk saree for the ceremony
Wednesday at Atala village near the Orissa state capital Bhubaneswar.
Priests chanted mantras to seal the union, but the snake failed to come
out of a nearby ant hill where it lives, the Press Trust of India (PTI)
said on Friday. A brass replica snake stood in for the hesitant groom.
"Though snakes cannot speak nor understand, we communicate in a peculiar
way," Das, 30, told the agency. "Whenever I put milk near the ant hill
where the cobra lives, it always comes out to drink. "I always get to
see it every time I go near the ant hill. It has never harmed me," she
added. Villagers welcomed the wedding in the belief it would bring good
fortune and laid on a feast for the big day. Snakes and particularly the
King Cobra are venerated in India as religious symbols worn by Lord
Shiva, the god of destruction. |
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A queer 'must have' for newly-weds
Whenever there’s a marriage in Mangal thanda where 40-odd tribal
families live, the residents ensure that the newly married couple is
first given an old truck tube. It is their life-jacket, so to say, with
the help of which they cross the stream, Vattevagu, to buy their
essential commodities. This tiny tribal hamlet is located 12 km from
Nekkanda railway station and has no villages adjacent to it. For all
practical purposes, they have to go to Suripelli village for their
needs, which is divided by the Vattevagu stream.
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Villagers hold frog wedding to end drought
I now pronounce you frog and wife. With five priests chanting
scriptures, a frog groom named Punarvasu and his amphibian bride Pushala
were joined in holy Hindu matrimony by villagers hoping the ancient
custom will bring monsoon rains to their drought-stricken district.
Organizer Nandkumar Pawar says thousands of people gathered Thursday in
a massive tent in Patkhal village for the lavish wedding banquet. He
said Saturday that the frogs were decorated with flowers and smeared
with turmeric, a holy and auspicious ointment. A brass band played
Bollywood film songs while the priests blessed the frogs. The region in
Maharashtra state is 400 kilometres southeast of Mumbai, India’s
financial capital. Frog weddings are practiced in some parts of India
and other areas of South Asia.
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