Lose weight on your wedding day

In our last post we were looking at the costs faced by wedding guests attending your wedding day, but this story completely shadows the £600 odd quid, leaving the wedding guests roughly £3,250 out of pocket for the privilege of celebrating your big day.

The reason for this high cost is that Noah & Erin have chosen a rather odd weightlessness wedding on-board an aircraft at the Cape Canaveral centre in Florida USA.

The couple will exchange vows in a specially designed jet that can simulate weightlessness similar to the feeling created by a spaceship in orbit.

Noah Fulmar, 31 will offer Erin Finnegan, 30, a wedding ring, specially made of fragments of a meteorite that crashed into the Earth 30,000 years ago.

Recently we reported EasyJet weddings planned by the airline company, which have since be refused by their local authority. But in Florida it seems, not only can you get married on a jet, but one that includes 15 roller-coaster style dives where the plane plummets from 36,000 feet to 24,000 feet and then climbs back up for another 30 second weightless drop for the bride and groom.

Son of an astronaut, Richard Garriott the British space tourist and adventurer will officiate at the ceremony during the Boeing 727 90-minute flight – the only way to experience weightlessness without heading into orbit.

The bride will apparently attend the unusual wedding ceremony by wearing a designer wedding dress, equipped with trousers to protect her modesty during weightlessness.

“Noah wanted to get married in space but we probably won’t be able to afford it for another 25 to 50 years – so I suggested this as a compromise,” she said.

Mr Fulmor admitted his mother thinks he is “absolutely nuts”.

The wedding is set for June 20th this year, and although we’ve reported some weird and wonderful weddings lately, this one could well top the list.
Having seen the making of the movie Apollo 13 where Tom Hanks describes the weightlessness process as the “spew tube” where so many of the crew and cast were sick during the 90 minute flight, we’re not entirely sure that the bride and groom have thought this through very well. The interior of the aircraft, replicates levels of weightlessness found on Mars or the Moon and has padded surfaces as travellers uncontrollably bash into the sides of the jet.

The slightly mad, but adventurous pair, who met at a science fiction club in their home city of New York, will honeymoon in Antarctica – hopefully on a standard flight to their destination.

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