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The fruits of love?
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Posted by: lester

Paying in onions and potatoes for wedding outfits!

A wedding ceremony is under way in a Russian church. The young couple will soon be pronounced man and wife. They already put down their signatures and exchanged the rings. All of a sudden, a person shows up and gives two bricks to the bride and her groom. Is it some kind of a joke or what? No, it is a new way of fundraising. These days the couples wed in a church of the town of Dimitrovgrad are encouraged to contribute to the restoration of the church of the Savior and Transfiguration by buying two bricks. The names of sponsors will be carved on every brick bought during the nuptials.

The staff at the local registry office came up with that uncommon idea. The newlyweds and their relatives paid for nearly a hundred bricks during the first day of the new procedure. One brick costs 5 rubles.

A nice wedding ceremony entails costly wedding dresses and other fancy things money can buy. But sometimes money is tight to mention. Now wedding dresses and stuff are available for hire to low-income residents of some villages in the Krasnodar regions. The couples can pay in "kind" for the hire of matrimonial attire i.e. in onions, potatoes, and fruit grown in their garden plots. The wedding outfit of a groom costs 80 kilos of onions a day while a gorgeous weeding dress costs 100 kilos of potatoes.

From Pravda.ru
And no, I have not mis-spelt "weeding dress"
it's a typo!