Zero Gravity Wedding
Every couple should feel like they are ‘walking on air’ on their wedding day. One couple from New York in America took this one step further.
Thirty one year old Noah Fulmore and his fiancée, thirty year old Erin Finnegan paid out over ten thousand pounds to have their wedding ceremony performed on a Boeing 727 while experiencing zero gravity. The plane had been modified so that its passengers could undertake sharp dives (called parabolic arcs) similar to a roller coaster ride and while inside the padded cabin they would be completely weightless during the nose dives. The couple and any guests would have floated around in mid-air, similar to how astronauts would feel during their space walks or on the moon etc. This plane ride was something that the actor, Tom Hanks undertook in preparation for his part in “Apollo 13″.
Noah and Erin did not want their wedding to be your every day run of the mill ceremony and as they are both science fiction fanatics, this seemed the perfect ceremony for them. The flight took place in Florida from the Kennedy Space Centre and lasted approximately an hour and a half with sixteen dives in total. Their wedding rings were even made from pieces of a meteorite that crashed in Namibia over thirty thousand years ago.
Erin, who under her designer dress wore trousers incase she floated upside down, and her new husband Noah found the whole experience exhilarating.
Author - Pauline
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