Posted on 05/24/2016 2:11:13 PM PDT by bkopto
For the eighth time, Peruvian actor and environmental activist Ricardo Torres has symbolically married a tree as part of an ecological awareness campaign to urge others to care for the environment.
The wedding took place at a landmark location, the town of Santa Maria del Tule, which is home to an ancient 2000-year-old cypress tree. The tree's estimated weight is more than 544.3 million kilograms.
Torres left the house of his godmother, accompanied by a committee of village elders, friends and family, and walked down the Sabino street towards a cluster of Cypress tree leaves to start with the ritual procession.
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Torres placed a ring on one of the tree's branches and kissed it as guests threw rice at the "newly wed" couple.
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At the end of the ceremony, he threw a bouquet at the wedding attendees.
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On the plus side, the tree has a heckuva knot hole.
Oh, come on now, he can do it. 544 MILLION kgs? By my calcs that is a tree about the weight of five very large cruise ships.
Do they still have to have termite tests before they can get married? Did he check his bride for birds’ nests before the honeymoon? I’ll bet she has more nuts than he does (squirrels, silly).
Leaf it to this clown to marry a tree, thus depriving other deserving trees of a chance for marital bliss.
I wonder if the groom has any tree-trimmers in his branch of the family? That should make get-togethers a lot of fun.
I heard that Torres’ favorite Ninja Turtle figure was “Splinter”. Figures.
Reminds me of Baba Wawa.
If you could mawwy a twee what kind of twee would you mawwy?
I thought rice was a No-no, it kills the birds !!!
He had a woody.
Such a sap.
I need another tree wife like I need a hole in the head.
He better watch it or she’ll toast his acorns.
I say these things because he deserves no serious response.
He is barking mad.
If he had an affair, hed be barking up the wrong tree.
He threw a bouquet?
Isnt that kind of plant racist?
And also kind of plant necrophilia?
Satire? Probably not these days.
Have to be careful not to go out on a limb.
... and easy to nail!
/old joke
I suppose rumours of a budding romance were true,but I still suspect graft may be part of it.
Why not? It’s as real as many other ceremonies that liberals pretend are also marriage.
Honey moon night should be a laugh, the worlds gone crazy
Watch out for splinters!
Mark
as I leaf through the comments, I can’t help but chuckle...
but in all seriousness, maybe it’s time we branch out into something else...
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