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I think I'll marry the Oak tree in my front yard - or maybe the Magnolia in back
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tree-wedding-oaxaca_us_5a96ea14e4b07dffeb6f2904Women Are Tying The Knot With Trees For A Very Good Reason
Maybe someone should create a tree dating app called Timber.
You may now kiss the branch, er, bride. A group of women in Oaxaca, Mexico, recently had a marriage ceremony that was truly “tree-mendous”: All the grooms were trees. The blushing brides are all activists. The mass marriage was meant to draw attention to illegal logging, a serious problem in Mexico, where a third of the land area is covered by forest, U.K.’s Metro reports. Tree bride Dolores Leycigi said the ceremony was a serious statement about the planet’s future.
“Marrying a tree is a way of protesting, to say that we need to stop exterminating Mother Earth every day, every minute, every second,” she tells Ruptly, a news agency, in the video above.
The marriages aren’t legally binding, but tree bride Andrea Tanat said getting hitched with a tree still requires a serious commitment.
“I thought it was very interesting that we have a commitment, not only with this tree, but with all of nature,” she says to Ruptly. “I thought about how much we’ve already damaged nature, so I decided to come and get married.”
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Remember, trees are people too.
