These are possibly the men who married Ukrainian mail order brides who were contacted through the web sites of Russian marriage agency. As the photo shows, the websites are popular with American and Canadian men seeking women for marriage. Their caption below the photo reads, "Meet our Ukrainian-Canadian and Ukrainian-American families! Picture was taken at Olya and Jim's Ukrainian-American wedding. We all found each other online on this spot".
Showing posts with label marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marriage. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
Novia Rusa, Russian bride
The note below this photo originally uploaded to Flickr says, "You can see Russian brides everywhere in Moscow and St. Petersburg. At the background is St. Isaac's Cathedral."
Belarus woman seeking men for marriage
Russian Dating-A Belarus Bride-Meet Russian Women For Marriage 5, originally uploaded by Trulee2010.
There are many thousands of websites sponsoring women/girls from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and other nations of the former Soviet Union (USSR) for marriage. Generally the services are FREE for these women but the marriage or dating sites charge a certain fee from men who select these women. The fees may be payable before the men are allowed to contact these women. To facilitate it, the sites have shopping carts and other add-ons as you find in business/ commercial sites. Such women are generally referred to as Russian Mail Order Brides.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Man marries dog in India
This interesting photo was found on Flickr. Read the news about the dog-man marriage, which was added below the photo, copied and reproduced below:
NEW DELHI - A man in southern India married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony as an attempt to atone for stoning two other dogs to death — an act he believes cursed him — a newspaper reported Tuesday.
P. Selvakumar married the sari-draped former stray named Selvi, chosen by family members and then bathed and clothed for the ceremony Sunday at a Hindu temple in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, the Hindustan Times newspaper said.
Selvakumar, 33, told the paper he had been suffering since he stoned two dogs to death and hung their bodies from a tree 15 years ago.
"After that my legs and hands got paralyzed and I lost hearing in one ear," he said in the report.
The paper said an astrologer had told Selvakumar the wedding was the only way he could cure the maladies. It did not say whether his situation had improved.
Deeply superstitious people in rural India sometimes organize weddings to dogs and other animals, believing it can ward off certain curses.
The paper showed a picture of Selvakumar sitting next to the dog, which was wearing an orange sari and a flower garland.
The paper said the groom and his family then had a feast, while the dog got a bun.
NOTE: The date of the photo shown on Flickr.com is February 28, 2008.
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