What Are Weddings Coming To?

[Guest trekker]

............................................................Sunday, April 29, 2001

 

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - The bitch wore white.

 

Her fiance was dressed in tuxedo, top hat and a green tie with violet spots. But

he was naked below the waist.

 

Cynthia and Hans were one of 20

couples who tied the knot at a mass ceremony organized by Colombia's

Intercontinental Club this week.

[Guest trekker]

OK, OK. Here's the rest of the story.

 

............................................................Sunday, April 29, 2001

 

IT'S MASS DOG WEDDING!

 

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - The bitch wore white.

 

Her fiance was dressed in tuxedo, top hat and a green tie with violet spots. But

he was naked below the waist.

 

Cynthia and Hans, both wrinkle-faced Chinese Char Peis, were one of 20

couples who tied the knot at a mass ceremony organized by Colombia's

Intercontinental Canine Club this week.

 

The 40 barking love-hounds were dressed by their owners for the occasion in

Bogota.

 

Club founder Frank Yepes, a dog lover who says he shares his bed with 10

puppies, dreamed up the idea of canine weddings because owners were

having difficulty finding appropriate matches for their pooches.

 

It costs $20 a year for the doggy match-making service.

 

Cynthia's owner was ecstatic on the happy day.

 

"Cynthia's going to get married because she's getting old. I also want to get

hold of her kids. I hope she has 10," she told Reuters.

[Bilbo]

I've just heard on a different connection that when the local reporter here in Houston started interviewing the wedding couple on top of an artcar named Rice (We have had, I think, the largest artcar parade in the nation here last weekend.) that she cut the interview very short when she realized that the couple was two women.