Did you get married on February 29, 2008 — a leap year wedding?
Did you get married on leap year this year? If so, what made you get married on a leap year date when it only comes around every 4 years?
I searched through the web and found that Bride Karen McDonald and groom Mark Duncan-Caley did just that!
Bride Karen McDonald wore white, her groom, Mark Duncan-Caley, donned a suit and two bridesmaids and two groomsmen attended. But that was where tradition ended for the Christchurch couple.
The couple had a groom-dog, a bride-dog, a flower-dog and page-dog in attendance and chose yesterday — February 29 — to marry because it was a “quirky” date that only came around every four years.
McDonald, 32, said even if 20 years passed they would still have only celebrated four years of marriage.
“We will never grow old together,” she joked.
The other bonus was every leap year Duncan-Caley, 33, could buy her a “humungous” present to make up for the three years when they had missed out on celebrating their wedding anniversary, said McDonald, a canine hydrotherapist who also works part-time in retail with her new husband.
The couple were married last night in Kaiapoi’s Charles Street band rotunda by marriage celebrant, Tom Bayliss, before a reception at the Kaiapoi Working Men’s Club with their dogs, families and 120 guests.
It was a wedding planned in just 5-1/2 weeks after a spur-of-the-moment decision to name the big day as February 29.
“My friends and family have told me for years I am crazy. And crazy is getting married on February 29 which tells a story,” McDonald said.
The couple met over the internet two years ago and then face-to-face on a Christchurch beach. “It was really love at first sight,” she said.
McDonald then spent a month in the United Kingdom before returning to team up with Duncan-Caley at the Purau Bay Holiday Park, where he worked, living together in a small cabin for a couple of months. “Having survived that we can survive anything,” said McDonald.
They treasured their four “fur-kids” — a border collie, two border collie crosses and a beardie — but would not say if any newborns could be expected apart from “some puppies”.
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