Jun 22 2009I Do BLAAAHHH!: First Weightless Wedding
Erin Finnegan and Noah Fulmor got married over the weekend while hovering weightlessly in the back of an airplane. Allegedly it's the first weightless wedding, provided if you don't count the time I married alien in outerspace (read: I was probed, hard).
To recreate the weightless experience without going into space, the plane executed parabolic flight maneuvers, climbing sharply and descending several times during the one-hour flight.Inside the 90-foot-long padded "floating zone," the ceremony was accomplished with a lot of bumping and fumbling, as bride and groom, guests and witnesses alike tried to coordinate their movements in a microgravity environment.
Nice. And in the famous words of Billy Idol, "It's a nice day for a weightless wedding, it's a nice day to...horf again, BLAAAH!"
Couple Float Into Zero Gravity Nuptials [aolnews]
Thanks to Pat, who once made out with a stewardess to score free peanuts.
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Reader Comments
1. Ubu7 - June 22, 2009 6:36 PM
Ass clown First
2. Ubu7 - June 22, 2009 6:36 PM
All posters after this have stuck a plastic Chewbacca figure up their (or a friends) buttwhole
3. Birr Crinton - June 22, 2009 6:40 PM
yes, id love to be getting groped in the air by a nasa dude with a mcguyver hair cut while i say my vows. and i have stuck a plastic Chewbacca figure in my butt.
4. Ryan Ward - June 22, 2009 6:44 PM
SWEET! That's gotta be really freaking expensive!
5. FDSY - June 22, 2009 6:52 PM
Listen you UBU7!!!!
IM NOT SURE WHAT YOU DID WITH AND/OR TO UBU1 THROUGH 6 BUT I DON'T LIKE IT!!!!
also
WHETHER I HAVE STUCK A PLASTIC CHEWBACCA UP MY ASS AND WAS NEVER REALLY ABLE TO GET IT OUT EVEN WHEN I TRIED ALL THE SPATULAS IN THE HOUSE AND EVEN A BENT COAT HANGER THAT CAUSE MASSIVE BLEEDING AND RESULTED IN A TOP 3 MOST EMBARRASSING EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS OF MY LIFE IS NONE OF YOUR CONCERN!!!
6. Pew³ - June 22, 2009 7:00 PM
Good afternoon, everyone. We're flying at 26,000 feet, moving up to 30,000 feet, and we've got clear skies all the way to Las Vegas. Right now, we're bringing you some in-flight entertainment. One of our first class passengers would like to sing you a song inspired by one of our coach passengers. And since we let our first class passengers do, pretty much whatever they want, here he is…
7. Pew³ - June 22, 2009 7:04 PM
♪ I wanna make you smile whenever you're sad
♪ Carry you around when your arthritis is bad
♪ All I wanna do is grow old with you.
♪ I'll get your medicine when your tummy aches
♪ build you a fire if the furnace breaks
♪ Oh it could be so nice, growin old with you.
♪ I'll miss you, kiss you, give you my coat when you are cold.
♪ Need you, feed you, I'll even let you hold the remote control.
♪ So let me do the dishes in the kitchen sink
♪ Put you to bed when you've had too much to drink.
♪ Oh I could be the man to grow old with you.
♪ I wanna grow old with you.
8. Moose Knuckle - June 22, 2009 7:30 PM
See? Billy Idol gets it!
9. Cortniej - June 22, 2009 7:32 PM
...why!?
10. Pew³ - June 22, 2009 7:33 PM
All right, remember - alcohol equals puke equals smelly mess equals nobody likes you!
11. Justin - June 22, 2009 7:39 PM
The dude on the left holding the groom looks alot like Ben Stiller.
12. Justin - June 22, 2009 7:40 PM
...and the clergy holding the bride has a missing hand, if you know what i mean!
13. Pew³ - June 22, 2009 7:56 PM
@11 I was thinking Chris Kattan for the dude on the left, and a little Phil Collins on the right.
14. Pew³ - June 22, 2009 7:59 PM
Chris Evans as the groom, Nancy Kerrigan as the bride.
15. Daisy - June 22, 2009 8:20 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene int he movie Never Back Down where Max calls his friend before the prom, and hits himself in the head with a sneaker and says, I'm so stoned.
16. things - June 22, 2009 8:46 PM
http://my-first-time-naked.net/?id=3325386
17. Chuck Nunchuck - June 22, 2009 8:59 PM
I got married on Mars, they don't got shit on me!
18. hola - June 22, 2009 9:08 PM
but the real question is: did they join the mile high club?
http://wailea.mybrute.com/
19. Jonathan - June 22, 2009 9:27 PM
Not that impressive imo... it's really only a brief freefall. I'd think it a bit more special when it's actually in orbit. Though I suppose someone could argue that that too is only freefall, it seems a bit different in orbit, since you're kinda up there till you determine you're done, and not limited by not wanting to crash into the ground / ocean.
Just my two cents
20. Anonymous Blogger - June 22, 2009 11:15 PM
I don't think this is all too impressive. If it were in outer space it probably still wouldn't have been as impressive as a cat playing a keyboard. These people are just pathetic and I hope they get divorced soon for trying to pull a lamesauce stunt like this.
21. led panel - June 23, 2009 2:45 AM
funny
22. Jaded Icon - June 23, 2009 7:43 AM
Meh.....
23. ian - June 23, 2009 8:34 AM
so many attempted jokes in the post. so many failures. do better next time geekologie writer
24. Technology Slice - June 23, 2009 8:39 AM
That's a wedding day to remember.
25. Pat - June 23, 2009 8:59 AM
I took one for the team, but those peanuts were totally worth it.
26. Timbo - June 23, 2009 9:00 AM
I'm diggin they grey socks they both have...matches quite nicely
27. Ollie Williams - June 23, 2009 9:13 AM
After looking at the picture for several minutes, I still can't tell if the person on the left is a chick or dude.
28. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - June 23, 2009 9:50 AM
Not my cup of tea, but more power to the new couple. GOOD LUCK!
To all of those wishing harm or diveroce- take your sorry jaded asses back to your closet.
29. naas - June 23, 2009 9:52 AM
@27 looks sort of like a failed clone of adam sandler's hair as the wedding singer, I don't know if it's a he or she either
30. Ollie Williams - June 23, 2009 12:03 PM
@29
On the one hand, the face totally looks like a dude. On the other, I don't see any adam's apple, facial hair, and it looks like it's wearing eye liner. I'd still have space sex with him/her, either way.
31. RandomNigel - June 23, 2009 1:10 PM
The priest in that picture is definitely all "Hell yes. Bridal upskirt."
32. Darth - June 25, 2009 12:39 PM
It's hard to escape from this position,is she pregnant?
33. Rhialto - June 25, 2009 12:41 PM
Don't tell me that the guy all the way left is his father in law?