thursday, january 29, 1981
wedding supplement to the daily nebraskan
page 3
Wedding sites not limited
to a church sanctuary
By Betsy Miller
Here comes the bride . . . and how!
In the world of matrimony, there are
few "unusual" wedding ideas that haven't
been tried.
Take for example a few types of differ
ent weddings in Nebraska.
In 1973, Becky Cook and Robert Hinze
of Scottsbluff were married on top of the
Scottsbluff National Monument. Because
the wedding took place on a football Sat.
day the couple was smart enough to bring a
radio which was tuned in to the game dur
ing the ceremony. The newspaper article
describing the wedding notes that at one
point the minister stopped the services to
ask the score.
Nebraska football fever also overcame
Ron VanderMeer, a place-kicker for the
Huskers in 1976. VanderMeer was married
in the end zone of Memorial Stadium in
December 1976.
Glenn McComb and Dominique
Tolianker were married in March of 1970
in the middle seats of a twin-engine Beech
Baron approximately 1,000 feet above
Lincoln and traveling at 230 m.p.h. The
groom said that he loved flying and had
monetary matters in mind when deciding
where to tie the knot.
"It's a lot cheaper than renting a
church," he said.
Air space
Helicopters have also been the sceen of
a ceremony. In June of 1978 Spec. 5
Judith M. Dvorak and Chief Warrant
Officer 2 Gregory D. Smith of the Nebra
ska Army National Guard were married in
a helicopter hovering over Camp Ripley,
Minn., the camp where they first met.
Hot air balloons may be the only type
of air transportation which has never host
ed a wedding. In 1979, Willard Woldt and
Beverly Drake were planning to marry in a
balloon flying over Holmes Park, but un
favorable winds prevented the launch.
The duo married on the ground instead.
Perhaps some of the more inventive
married couples can be found in Fremont,
Neb. In the last three years. Fremont has
been the scene of a marriage in which the
intended were on horses and one where the
bride and bridegroom were on skates at
Roller Village. Naturally the minister and
attendants skated along with the two.
Malibu Blue and Disco Lady were
married over channel 3 of a Citizens Band
radio in 1976 when Chuck Griggs (Malibu)
and Terry Barnhill (Lady) were married.
The only objection seemed to come from
the couple's parents who thought it might
be a bit immature.
Pre-arrest wedding
Washington, D.C. was the scene of an
unusual wedding involving an Omahan.
Tom Fuller of Omaha and Joan Susienka
of Webster, Mass. said their vows while
waiting to be arrested after an anti-war
demonstration in 1971.
Standing on the steps of the Internal
Revenue Service building between police
lines, Fuller and Susienka were married.
Fuller and his wife made the decision to
take the plunge about ten minutes before
the ceremony.
Weddings don't always take place with
such short notice.
.The 1980 Guinness Book of World
Records shows that Octavio Guillen and
Adriana Martinez were engaged for 67
years before marrying in 1969.
Guinness shows that the longest union
in the United States was that of Fdd and
Margaret Hollen of Kentucky. The couples
was married for 83 years.
But of all these categories, there is one
which must be considered the most import
ant when determining who really likes the
process of getting married the most.
The co-winners are Jack and Edna
Moran of Seattle, Wash, who, since being
married in 1937, have repeated the service
40 times in various locations.
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