Tying the knot- People in Mexico are marrying trees – IOTW Report

Tying the knot- People in Mexico are marrying trees

Liberty Unyielding:

[Ed. – A couple of men seem to have taken vows — including the event’s sponsor, Peruvian activist Ricardo Torres (now reportedly wed to his eighth arboreal bride) — but the human contingent was mostly women, going by the videos and images.  Although the video illustration from the 2016 ceremony shows Torres toting around the suspiciously young tree on his right (in the feature image), the captioned explanation says he married a “2,000-year-old cypress.”  (Which would be some kind of cougar.)]

Photos from the mass ceremony show brides dressed in white hug and kiss their beloved trunks as they pledge their devotion forever.

There was even a bouquet to throw – though presumably one of the humans caught it, rather than a guest from the trees’ side of the family. … MORE HERE

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  1. Torres knew that he was marrying a tree that had some leaf spotting and mildew problems, but he thought that he could live with it. It turned out that she was a dogwood tree, though, and her bark was worse than her blight.

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