The Most Extreme Weddings to Ever Take Place
Committing yourself to a life of partnership with another person, through sickness and health and all the things, is scary enough. But for some couples, taking just that plunge doesn’t suffice and they find the need to exchange vows the way they live their lives: with a maximum adrenaline high. Enjoy these examples of extreme weddings from the safe, low altitude of your own home — or start planning how you might be able to say “I do” in the air, underwater, at top speed, or at the edge of the world.
Jump when I say jump
Skydiving weddings are a big thing among the fearless set — enough that there are Las Vegas companies that offer set packages starting at $1,400. We love how the couple in the video above had their ceremony on the plane and kissed in the air as they held hands (pro move!), surrounded by their wedding party. If you’d like to include some folks on the ground, you could also go the route of this ridiculously photogenic Portuguese couple, who took off after their ceremony.
Zero gravity, zero drama
This seems like a good compromise for those of us too chicken to jump out of a plane: a ceremony aboard a padded Boeing 727-200 aircraft, G-Force One, which gives all passengers the feeling of weightlessness. Erin Finnegan and Noah Fulmor, the first couple ever to be married on one of these flights, told the Telegraph that the hardest part was lining up for that kiss.
Swap bridesmaids for mermaids
This couple’s underwater wedding in a grotto in Saipan, one of the Mariana Islands, was officiated by none other than Neptune himself, who held up waterproof cards for their vows. Impressive that they didn’t drop the rings!
Jetpacks promised
Well, the concept of these above-water contraptions is cool, but it doesn’t appear that the couple can actually get close to each other while wearing them. Maybe save this stunt for the honeymoon?
Marriage at the end of the world
Model Janet Hsieh and actor George Young took 50 of their friends and family on a cruise to Antarctica for their wedding among the penguins. You can tell Hsieh’s a model because she manages not to look cold once in her sleeveless gown. As a bonus, watch this “Chandelier” parody video their friends made to distract themselves from seasickness on the way back home.
An early start on the roller coaster of marriage
This option is a bit cheaper than that Antarctica cruise. James and Cortni Music took an officiant on the Fury 325, the 325-foot roller coaster at North Carolina’s Carowinds.
Suspense and romance
Chinese couple Jiang Huizhu and Zhou Wenlong got strapped onto a tiny platform dangling from the glass-bottomed suspension bridge that hovers 590 feet in the air at the Shiniuzhai National Geological Park in Hunan province to “challenge ourselves,” they told Reuters. Also to challenge physics, apparently.
Ain’t no mountain high enough
As impressive as it is that rock climbers Brian and Mandy Fabel went on a 14-mile bike ride, a 24-mile hike, and then climbed 1,200 feet up to Pingora Peak in Wyoming for their mountaintop wedding, we’re a little more impressed that they got their officiant, filmmaker, and maid of honor to go with them.
Runaway bride and groom
As they told NBC, Stephanie Reinhart wanted a fast wedding and Mark Jockel wanted a huge one, so they paused briefly near the 8-mile mark of the Chicago Marathon in 2015 to get married in front of 40,000 people and a live TV audience.
This wedding blows
TV host and adventurer George Kourounis and wife Michelle had a literal blast at their wedding atop the very active Yasur volcano in Vanuatu. If you’re not a certified “adventurer” yourself, you can choose a much less dramatic — but still beautiful — volcanic backdrop in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
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