- Title: GERMANY: COUPLE EXCHANGE MARRIAGE VOWS IN A GIGANTIC FISH TANK
- Date: 22nd May 2004
- Summary: (L!1) BERLIN, GERMANY (MAY 14, 2003) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF BRIDE AND GROOM PUTTING ON DIVING SUITS (SOUNDBITE) (German) MARKO JOKIEL, GROOM SAYING: "I proposed to her inside the fish tank. I had been inside the fish tank before and she was in the elevator when I held up a sign with my question on it. She gave me the okay sign." (SOUNDBITE) (German) DIANA TOPKA, BRIDE SAYING: "I am pretty nervous because he has been in there before, I haven't. But I am really looking forward to it and I'm anxious to find out how it is. I'm excited!" VISITORS INSIDE ELEVATOR CLOSE-UP OF COUPLES HANDS GROOM ADJUSTING BRIDES HAIR (SOUNDBITE) (German) UWE STRUCK, REGISTRAR SAYING: "This is the first underwater wedding. We have wed couples on the water, on the waterfront and on ships, near the aquarium at Berlin zoo, so we are used to water. The only condition is that we don't have to go into the water." COUPLE POSING FOR CAMERAS COUPLE INSIDE ELEVATOR REGISTRAR BRIEFING COUPLE, THEN COUPLE EXCHANGING VOWS PAN FROM CEILING TO COUPLE IN WATER COUPLE INSIDE FISH TANK NEWLY-WED COUPLE EXCHANGING RINGS IN WATER FISH SURROUNDING NEWLY-WED COUPLE REGISTRAR IN ELEVATOR COUPLE KISSING UNDERWATER FAMILY MEMBERS WATCHING FROM BELOW, WAITING FOR COUPLE TO DESCEND IN ELEVATOR (SOUNDBITE) (German) MARKO JOKIEL, GROOM SAYING "Wonderful! It was like a dream. Diving was very unique and so was the event. So it was double unique." (SOUNDBITE) (German) DIANA TOPKA, BRIDE SAYING "It was just wonderful!" FISH IN TANK NEWLY-WED COUPLE TOASTING WITH CHAMPAGNE (6.27)
- Embargoed: 6th June 2004 13:00
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- Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
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- Country: Germany
- Topics: Quirky,Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
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- Story Text: A German couple has exchanged vows in a flamboyant fashion, a gigantic fish tank.
Dismissing locations like a hot air balloon or some mountain peak as boring, Marko Jokiel proposed to his girlfriend Diana Topka some three months ago from inside a huge aquarium in the German capital Berlin. And on Friday (May 14), the couple got married.
"I proposed to her from inside the fish tank. She was in the elevator when I held up a sign with my question on it and she gave me the okay sign", Jokiel said with a big smile on his face.
His girlfriend Diana was inside the elevator which is surrounded by a gigantic, 25 metre high aquarium inhabited by tropical fish. "AquaDom Sea Life" opened last December and has been an attraction with Berlin visitors ever since.
Although both bride and groom are hobby divers Diana Topka was still nervous to go down the big tank. "I have not been in there before. But I am really looking forward to it and Im anxious to find out how it is." she said.
Registrar Uwe Struck, who has wed couples water and ships said this was the first wedding in a fish tank.
Strange to some, the idea did not strike him as undoable however he set one condition - not having to go into the water himself. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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