重すぎる結婚式
イギリスで破天荒な結婚式が行われた。
16歳の新婦が着ていたウエディングドレスは、なんと、、、160kgの重さだったのだ。
幅2.5メートル、長さ16メートルのウエディングドレスでは、教会の入り口を通ることもできず、10人がかりで押し込んだとのことである。そもそも、このドレスを着るだけで、９時間半も掛かったらしい。
当然、祭壇にたどり着いた彼女は疲れきっていたらしい。
いまだに独身のこのワタクシが言うのもなんだが、、、結婚式ってそこまでやるほどのことなのか？
仮にそうだとしても、少なくとも入り口の扉の幅くらい確認しておくべきだろう。
それに、１６歳の花嫁と１７歳の花婿の結婚式にこれだけの手間と金を掛ける親の顔が見てみたいものだ、と思っていたら、父親はこのワタクシと１歳しか年が違わないらしい。(こっちは、子供がいないどころか、結婚もしていないというのに。。。)
ちなみに、彼女がここまでの結婚式を行った理由は、単にモデルのジョーダンのウエディングドレスに対抗したかったかららしい。。。
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The Sun Online - News: Bride is married in weight
BRIDE Carly O’Brien wanted a big wedding — so she wore a dress weighing 25 STONE.
But the £25,000 creation, to outdo model Jordan’s, was 8ft WIDE and got STUCK in the church door.
It took TWENTY people an hour and a half to heave 16-year-old Carly through and up the aisle followed by her 60FT LONG train.
The 30-layer tulle dress, covered with 3,000 Swarovski crystals, diamond head-dress and train meant dad Frank, 40, had to walk in front as there was no room alongside.
Carly, who spent NINE AND A HALF HOURS getting into it, was exhausted when she got to the altar in Gloucester.
After the ceremony groom Michael Coffey, 17, and 14 relatives carried her out.
Sister Crystal, 20, said: “Carly wanted her day bigger than Jordan’s. She got it.”
Herald Sun: Bride suitably dressed for a weighty occasion [24jun06]
AT 48kg, sixteen-year-old Carly O'Brien is a slip of a girl.
But if her groom, landscape gardener Michael Coffey, 17, tried to carry her, he could have done himself a mischief.
Thanks to 30 layers of material, metal hoops, and 30,000 Swarovski crystals, Ms O'Brien's wedding dress weighed an astonishing 159kg and could be the world's heaviest.
Family and friends took more than eight hours to dress the bride in the 2.5m wide voluminous gown.
Its train was 18m and so heavy 10 guests had to push the bride up the aisle.
The dress is believed to have cost the bride's father, Frank, about $37,000.
Carly's sister, Linda, said it was designed to look like model Jordan's outfit when she married Peter Andre last year.
The bride arrived at St Peter's Catholic Church, Gloucester, in the same horse-drawn carriage used for Jordan's wedding. Three men had to lift her to the ground.
Despite its weight, Ms O'Brien insisted on wearing the dress throughout the reception, though she spent most of the evening sitting down.
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