Monday, September 27, 2004

Noteworthy Wedding Receptions

1. "Couple have wedding reception at KFC"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1107663.html>
"Newleyweds Jason and Nina Payne treated their guests to a reception at Kentucky
 Fried Chicken"

2. "A Happy Meal for the happy couple"
   <http://www.stockportexpress.co.uk/news/index/articles/article_id=6027.html>
"Wacky newlyweds Simon and Paula Hand amazed friends and family when they held
 their wedding reception at McDonalds"

3. "Firemen called to extinguish cake"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_686045.html>
"Staff at the Three Kings restaurant in Beauvoorde, were lighting fireworks on
 the wedding cake when a spark caught one of the fire detectors, setting off the
 alarm at the fire station in nearby Veurne"

4. "Wedding reception takes bad turn: Fight breaks out, man loses finger"
   <http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/news/082503_NW_da_wedding.html>
"A wedding reception in Corunna took a turn for the worse. A wedding guest bit
 off another man's finger"

5. "Melee mars wedding reception"
   <http://www.app.com/app2001/story/0,21133,831360,00.html>
"A donnybrook erupted at a wedding reception Sunday night when a guest became
 enraged because he thought his girlfriend was manhandled during the traditional
 garter belt ritual"

6. "Serb pilots shot down by newly-weds"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200310/s965318.htm>
"A two-seater sports plane on an unauthorised joyride was apparently shot down
 by mistake when it flew over a Serbian wedding party where guests were firing
 guns into the air"

7. "Bride whisked to reception in giant yellow digger"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_785153.html>
"A bride who asked for a chauffeur driven limo to pick her up from church was
 stunned when a giant yellow digger arrived instead"

8. "Newly-weds hitch to reception after car confiscated"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200211/s731323.htm>
"A newly-wed couple had to hitch a ride to their reception after their ribbon
-decked wedding car was confiscated under Queensland state's tough new
 'anti-hoon' laws"

9. "Underprivileged say 'I do' to lavish wedding banquet"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200211/s733309.htm>
"About 200 underprivileged children and elderly people and have become
 unexpected guests at a wedding banquet in an upmarket Singapore hotel on
 Saturday after the bride and groom reportedly forgot to cancel their booking"