Weddings picturesAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 26 image entries
Contest Directions: 
It seems these days you can marry not just about anyone, but everything too.
A Swedish woman fell in love with the Berlin Wall and married it. Here's the "Berlin Wall family" site and their love story. The woman is now known as Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer (Mrs. Berlin Wall).
Photoshop weddings of people to non-people (objects, buildings, vegetables, etc.), or non-people to non-people (e.g. electric socket marrying screwdriver, animals marrying other animals, etc.).
If you need a quick inspiration, imagine what celebrities would marry a vegetable.
Many thanks to AzureSky for the news and contest idea.
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Jackpot: 1st place: $5, 2nd place: $3 , 3rd place: $2
Started: 6/5/2008 10:00:00 PM, Ended: 6/8/2008 10:30:00 PM
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| | From Adam's times the man to acquire complete harmony in the life, must find his own Eve. Traditional marriage is known since times of Ancient Rome, but along with it there such form of a marriage, as purchase of the bride was also existed. The bride was bought already when yet there was no monetary circulation, the cattle (for the bride was given certain quantity of heads of large and small horned livestock) were a price criterion. From works of Homer it is known, that the tradition of purchase of the bride existed already during his time. Later, with agriculture development, the bride had began to be bought for a crop
As the symbolical deed of tradition, to buy the bride still for a long time remained in Ancient Rome. On wedding, the man came with scales on which in the presence of witnesses the bride threw a coin.
For the resolving possible marriage conflicts in the Ancient world, clay placards were used, some writer, sitting at city gate, put the text of the marriage contract. If a marriage contract was not concluded with a woman she was not considered as wife.
In due course, position of woman in society changed, here came up certain form of marriage with dowry. Weddings with a dowry are known from 135 BC, and the husband, who desires to abandon his wife should return dowry to her. Weddings with dowry were practiced in Egypt and Athens.
The age of the future wives during ancient times was very young. Fathers aspired to give out the daughters as soon as possible, sometimes even before sexual maturity. In Ancient Egypt, in imperial dynasties, many child marriages are known.
The tradition of bride abduction has deep historical roots. From the epics we know, that even gods of the Olympus preferred wedding with abduction. A hindrance for abduction was not even the full consent of the bride to marriage. Along with abduction there was also a custom to carry the bride through a house threshold, to deceive demons. |
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