- - , Algemeen, 29 dec 2005, JNet.news.com, , Brit Jew marries dolphin
Unusual wedding: British woman marries her beloved dolphin in Eilat ceremony
Joe Kot
Till death do us part?
An unusual wedding ceremony was held in the southern resort town of
Eilat on Wednesday, as Sharon Tendler, a 41-years-old Jewish
millionaire from London married her beloved Cindy, a 35-years-old
dolphin, Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday.
The groom, a resident of the Eilat dolphin reef, met
Tendler 15 years ago, when she first visited the resort. The British
rock concert producer took a liking to the dolphin and has made a habit
of traveling to Eilat two or three times a year and spending time with
her underwater sweetheart. "The peace and tranquility underwater, and his love, would calm me down," the excited bride said after the wedding.
After a years-long romance, Tendler decided to embark on
the highly unusual path of tying the knot with her beloved dolphin.
Last week, she approached Cindy's trainer Maya Zilber with the
extraordinary request. Zilber accepted the challenge and "talked the idea over with the fellow," who apparently consented.
'I'm not a pervert'
And so on Wednesday afternoon, the thrilled bride, wearing
a white dress, walked down the dock before hundreds of astounded
visitors and kneeled down before her groom, who was waiting in the
water. Cindy, escorted by his fellow best-men dolphins, swam
over to Tendler and she hugged him, whispered sweet nothings in his
ear, and kissed him in front of the cheering crowd. After the ceremony was sealed with some mackerels,
Tendler was tossed into the water by her friends so that she could swim
with her new husband. "I'm the happiest girl on earth," the bride said as she
chocked back tears of emotion. "I made a dream come true, and I am not
a pervert," she stressed. Tendler said she and her newly wed husband will probably spend their wedding night bowling.
"But what kind of children would they have?" one of the children in the crowd asked his father.