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Couple's marriage made in Hell
Thursday, November 02, 2006


Alan Warren, The Ann Arbor News, via AP
Catherine Greene and Nicholas Doubleday walk away from the "Village Howl" after their wedding ceremony on Halloween night in Hell, Mich., Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2006. The couple came from San Diego for the ceremony.

HELL, Michigan -- The bride wore black -- and vampire teeth -- during a Halloween-themed wedding in Hell.

"It was her idea," Nicholas Doubleday told The Ann Arbor Daily News of his new wife, Catherine Greene. "When I asked her to marry me, she said she wanted the wedding in Hell."

The couple lives near San Diego and are planning to relocate to Michigan. They have not ruled out moving to Hell, a small town of about 250 people 45 miles west of Detroit.

The bride, a registered nurse, walked down the lantern-lit, pumpkin-lined aisle in cadence with a funeral dirge instead of the "Wedding March," in a wedding tied to the spooky U.S. Halloween holiday, in which people dress in costumes and children go door-to-door for treats.

The groom, who hopes to become a history teacher, was a knight clad in 80 pounds of armor.

"I will have these wonderful memories forever," Greene told the newspaper.

Greene and Doubleday met in 2003 in Alaska, where she was going to college and he was in the Air Force. Their ghoulish wedding day was their third trip to Hell together.

First published on November 2, 2006 at 12:00 am
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