Posted on 10/29/2010 10:42:15 AM PDT by TigerClaws
(Oct. 29) -- It should have been one of the happiest days of their lives. The European couple had decided to renew their wedding vows in the tropical Maldives islands in the Indian Ocean and paid $1,300 for the ceremony to be conducted in the exotic local Dhivehi language.
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The couple -- who are thought to be either Swiss or French -- hold their hands up in prayer, and glance happily at each other throughout the 15-minute ceremony, blissfully unaware of the words' true meaning. "You fornicate and make a lot of children," the celebrant continued. "You drink and you eat pork. Most of the children that you have are marked with spots and blemishes." At one point the camera shifts to the official-looking wedding document the man, identified as Hussein Didi, is supposedly reading off. It turns out to be a list of regulations for hotel staff.
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That said, I admit to a lot of schadenfreude. If you are a secular westerner who wants to go to the third world to do a new agey, touchy feeley sort of local ceremony you should go someplace like India or maybe Bali where they are used to catering to western eccentricities. The last place on earth you should go is to a muslim country. So, I found it funny and at the same time rather pathetic that they don't have a place of worship and faith community where they could have done their ceremony and then go on vacay.
“paid $1,300 for the ceremony to be conducted in the exotic local Dhivehi language.”
This will teach them not to skimp on the delux wedding vow renewal ceremony. It comes with a language you can understand, guarantees un-spotty kids and only costs $500 more.
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