Wedding dress not required: Couples who participated in the ceremony pose for a group photo after exchanging vows
Blushing brides they are not.Nine adventurous couples slathered on ample amounts of sunblock as they exchanged vows au naturel in Negril, Jamaica.With little more than orchid bouquets to hide their modesty, the ladies walked down the white sand beach in the buff to say 'I do' on Valentine's Day. The Hedonism II resort invited ten couples for the all-expense paid group ceremony. One couple dropped out before the big day, which was filmed for a documentary.
The lucky few were selected from a stack of 100 applications asking a myriad of questions, including why they wanted to start their life together in the nude.
One couple reasoned: 'We love each other naked so why not start our life together naked?We both love doing wild and crazy things!' read another obvious rationale on the list.It would be a memory we could enjoy in our golden years,' wrote two of the newlyweds.
Exhibitionists: Seven of the brides cover their modesty with orchid bouquets at the Hedonism II resort in Negril, which held the group ceremony
In addition to the complimentary ceremony, winning couples were treated to a bachelor/bachelorette party and four-night stay at the resort, which sits on 22 acres of Negril's seven-mile beach. Getting married in the buff on Valentine's Day meant living out a fantasy for Milly Salas, a stay-at-home mom from Bergen County, New Jersey, who had never visited a nudist resort before.
'It was beautiful. It was like a fairy tale,' the 39-year-old Salas said shortly after the nude nuptials at Hedonism II, a resort for the pleasure-seeking crowd in Negril, a western tourist town in this largely conservative, tourism-dependent island.
The promise of a Valentine's Day wedding and complimentary four-night stay attracted over 100 engaged couples from the U.S. and Canada, but only 10 were chosen as part of a nude wedding contest, according to Zein Issa-Nakash, a marketing vice president of Superclubs, which owns Hedonism. One couple dropped out before the big day, which was filmed by a documentary TV crew.
Kevin Young, of Land O' Lakes, Florida, said walking around au naturale is what he's used to since he lives in a nudist community. Getting married without clothes was a no-brainer for Young and his new wife, Shannon Witherspoon. Even body paint was too much for him, he said.
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