Town throws dream wedding for triple amputee Marine
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Juan Dominguez lost his both his legs and his right arm after stepping on improvised explosive device while serving as a Marine Corporal in Afghanistan in 2010. But that didn’t stop him from finding true love a few months later, when he met his now-wife Alexis after returning to the States.
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‘You bet your sweet life’: Guadalcanal veteran marries after 30-year courtship
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Former Marine Jack Wright, 88, one of the 11 remaining survivors of the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal, married his girlfriend of 30 years, Shirlene King, 57, at the Veterans Administration hospital in Los Angeles.
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Honeymoons Over My Hammy! Weddings at Denny’s
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Can’t decide which you love more — your honey or maple syrup? If you’re in Las Vegas, you’re in luck. Behind its bright-yellow, abstract facade, the Denny’s restaurant in the Neonopolis district on Fremont Street (a short drive from the Strip) that opened last November is now accepting bookings for its in-house wedding chapel.
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Love among the ruins: Sandy decimates community, but wedding goes on
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The wedding had been two years in the making: The church was booked, the custom fuchsia and blue Converse sneakers for the bridesmaids were ordered, and the firehouse was secured as a staging ground for the groomsmen.
But then Superstorm Sandy struck, flooding the firehouse, forcing the church to turn into a command center, and scattering the guests and the newlyweds-to-be, as well as the custom Converse, less than a month before the big day: Friday, Nov. 23.
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Their wedding photos are ready – after only 88 years
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Eighty-eight years after getting married, a Chinese couple have finally gotten their wedding photos taken — and they’re still smiling.
Cameras were scarce in China in 1924, when Wu Conghan, 101, and wife Wu Sognshi, 103, tied the knot, so they have no photos from their big day. But nearly nine decades later, they re-created the happiness of the event.
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Wheeled wedding unites couple with cerebral palsy
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The bride wore white and used a wheelchair; the groom looked handsome as he steered a Segway in his tuxedo.
Over the weekend, Melissa Crisp and Owen Cooper had a wedding on wheels.
Their wedding invitations asked guests to join them as they “roll into marriage.” “We had a roll theme going on,” Cooper told TODAY.com. “That was Melissa’s wording.”
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Wedding brawl aftermath: Groom’s relative arrested for allegedly assaulting cop
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A New Jersey man who wound up being Tased by police has been identified as one of the main troublemakers in a brawl between two wedding parties at a Philadelphia hotel, authorities said.
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Dogs from New York, Virginia wed at charity extravaganza
Dachshunds dressed for the occasion, Dee Dee, foreground left, and her cousin Clifford, foreground right, are held by their owner Valerie Diker, as they and other dogs and people wait for the start of the most expensive wedding for pets Thursday July 12, 2012 in New York. The black tie fundraiser, where two dogs were “married”, was held to benefit the Humane Society of New York. Dee Dee and Clifford were part of the wedding party.
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Frogs receive traditional Hindu wedding ceremony
The wedding of two frogs, arranged by farmers seeking rainfall, is performed in Nagpur on June 29, in order to please the Rain Gods and in the hope that their region would soon receive monsoon showers. People blew trumpets and sang songs, as the priest solemnized the marriage with the usual Hindu marriage rituals to the chanting of Hindu hymns and by putting streaks of vermilion on the female frog’s head.
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