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Eugene

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Sat Apr 16, 2016, 05:34 PM Apr 2016

New Zealand stages first Pastafarian wedding on pirate boat

Source: BBC

New Zealand stages first Pastafarian wedding on pirate boat

16 April 2016 Asia

The light-hearted Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has staged its first legally recognised wedding.

Toby Ricketts and Marianna Fenn tied the "noodle knot" in the New Zealand South Island town of Akaroa.

The happy couple say that guidelines of the Pastafarian religion stipulate that wedding celebrants must be pirates.

Members of the church profess the belief that the world was created by an airborne spaghetti and meatballs-based being and humans evolved from pirates.

New Zealand officials last month designated the religion as an officially-recognised faith, allowing Wellington-based Pastafarian Karen Martyn the legal right to conduct marriages.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36062126


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New Zealand stages first Pastafarian wedding on pirate boat (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2016 OP
The first legally recognized wedding Warpy Apr 2016 #1
Best wishes to the happy couple. nt jonno99 Apr 2016 #2
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