From the ArcaMax Publishing, Weird News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/weirdnews/s-569564-533361
MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. (UPI) -- The New York couple who became the first
to marry in zero gravity said the high altitude ceremony was
"beautiful."
Saturday's wedding of Noah Fulmor, 31, and Erin Finnegan, 30, was
broken into 30-second segments as the Zero Gravity Corp.'s modified
Boeing 727-200 aircraft made parabolic arcs high in the atmosphere to
simulate moments of weightlessness, WKMG-TV, Orlando, Fla., reported.
"When you're floating, and it's under control, it's beautiful," Fulmor
said after returning to Earth at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. "When
you're twisting, all of a sudden someone has to grab you and steady
you. There were moments that were absolutely as I had imagined them.
The bouquet toss was as though it was staged in a movie, and we were
watching it. It floated out and was caught effortlessly by one of the
bridesmaids."
Richard Garriott, an investor in Zero Gravity Corp. and the son of an
astronaut, officiated during the ceremony.
"It was a bit tricky," he said. "They had planned their own ceremony
quite well. They broke it up into 30-second episodes of the wedding.
For each parabola, we did one small exchange."
Garriott said it was the couple's love of space that led him to agree
to officiate at the first zero gravity wedding.
"If there's a couple who should be doing this first, they're clearly
the ones," he said. "Noah and Erin are huge space fans."