TWO weddings in the news!
Barter Bride Gets Extravagant Services
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A Laguna Niguel, Calif., bride-to-be seeking to trade services with those who could help her pay for a wedding got about $75,000 worth of goodies, she said.
Kerry Coryell posted an ad on Craigslist and got an extravaganza in return, The Orange County (Calif.) Register reported Sunday. Coryell and Kurt VanDerLinde were married on the Brig Pilgrim wooden tall ship in Dana Point Harbor, with flying doves, and a ride in a 1964 Princess Rolls Royce limousine.
After the ceremony, Coryell changed into the second of two wedding gowns she received and headed to Salt Creek Grille for a filet mignon reception for 100.
The couple paid nothing and most of the Orange County vendors who provided services asked for nothing in return.
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Newlyweds begin 'honeymoon' in jail
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A Tennessee couple broke into the wedding chapel where they had been married a few hours earlier and stole a lockbox holding $500, police said.
Brian Dykes, 21, and Mindy McGhee, 24, of Jacksboro were in the Sevier County Jail Friday after being arrested at a Denny's Restaurant in Pigeon Forge, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported.
'The jail may have to get a honeymoon suite, because that's where they'll spend their honeymoon,' Joyce Whaley, owner of the Angel's View Wedding Chapel, told the newspaper.
Dykes and McGhee were married Wednesday afternoon at the chapel. At about 1 a.m., an employee who stopped by to make sure the place was secure discovered a door had been forced open and recognized the car in the parking lot.
'The wedding picture is what identified them,' Whaley said. 'They look exactly the same in their mug shots.'
Police said the couple admitted the break-in and gave up the lockbox and stolen cash.
Whaley said her lawyers have advised her the marriage is still legal.
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A Laguna Niguel, Calif., bride-to-be seeking to trade services with those who could help her pay for a wedding got about $75,000 worth of goodies, she said.
Kerry Coryell posted an ad on Craigslist and got an extravaganza in return, The Orange County (Calif.) Register reported Sunday. Coryell and Kurt VanDerLinde were married on the Brig Pilgrim wooden tall ship in Dana Point Harbor, with flying doves, and a ride in a 1964 Princess Rolls Royce limousine.
After the ceremony, Coryell changed into the second of two wedding gowns she received and headed to Salt Creek Grille for a filet mignon reception for 100.
The couple paid nothing and most of the Orange County vendors who provided services asked for nothing in return.
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Newlyweds begin 'honeymoon' in jail
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A Tennessee couple broke into the wedding chapel where they had been married a few hours earlier and stole a lockbox holding $500, police said.
Brian Dykes, 21, and Mindy McGhee, 24, of Jacksboro were in the Sevier County Jail Friday after being arrested at a Denny's Restaurant in Pigeon Forge, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported.
'The jail may have to get a honeymoon suite, because that's where they'll spend their honeymoon,' Joyce Whaley, owner of the Angel's View Wedding Chapel, told the newspaper.
Dykes and McGhee were married Wednesday afternoon at the chapel. At about 1 a.m., an employee who stopped by to make sure the place was secure discovered a door had been forced open and recognized the car in the parking lot.
'The wedding picture is what identified them,' Whaley said. 'They look exactly the same in their mug shots.'
Police said the couple admitted the break-in and gave up the lockbox and stolen cash.
Whaley said her lawyers have advised her the marriage is still legal.
