A Funeral Car, a Haunted House and a Dead Corsage – It Must Be Time for a Wedding
Last Friday was Friday the 13th, a day that is considered by many to be fraught with peril. For the couple dubbed Utah’s unluckiest, however, Friday the 13th was a chance to turn their luck around with a new beginning.
Radio station K-BULL 93FM held an unusual contest in the days leading up to Friday the 13th. Couples were invited to write letters explaining their recent bad luck. Those who were judged the unluckiest were then treated to a wedding ceremony free of charge. The catch was that the ceremony would be held in a haunted house, at 1300 South Street, on Friday the 13th.
The winning couple had certainly been through more than their share of bad luck. In two years, they had been through 12 cars due to repeated breakdowns. The groom had been in back to back car accidents two days in a row, at the same intersection. He had been a victim of identity theft, leaving him $10,000 in debt. The couple’s medical records had been stolen from the hospital. The groom is on his sixth job this year.
When they heard that they had won, the couple had only two days to pull the wedding together. They pulled in numerous superstitions, such as the bride and her father walking to the altar under a ladder. The bride’s grandmother even dressed in black for the occasion, sporting a dead corsage. The happy couple left the ceremony not in a wedding limo, but in a funeral car.
All involved agreed that the wedding was a lot of fun. They also believe that the ceremony may have represented a purging of negative energy and a chance for the couple to embark on a happy and even lucky new life together.
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