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Worst Wedding Weather States and vote for the Worst Wedding

Posted by Brian  

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The Farmers Almanac had been soliciting entries for worst wedding weather as part of a contest to see who had the worst disaster story to tell, but also to see which states tend to have the worst wedding weather.  Interestingly enough, Texas had the most submissions for weather disasters, with Florida, Indiana Ohio and Penn. right behind it.  The states with the least submissions were South Carolina, Arizona, Oregon, Utah, and North Dakota.

Also, the Farmers Almanac is running a contest for the Worst Wedding Weather Disaster story.  They chose 10 stories for users to vote on through March 17th.  The stories include:

  • Two Louisiana couples and a North Carolina couple who had hurricanes crash their wedding parties.
  • A Philadelphia area couple whose wedding day plans were postponed by record snowfall.
  • A Massachusetts couple caught off guard by a freak snowstorm in May.
  • Couples in Minnesota, Oklahoma and Texas whose weddings were dampened by heavy rain.
  • A Michigan couple whose Hawaii wedding vacation in paradise felt like an episode of Survivor.
  • An Indiana couple whose reception hall became an infirmary in the wake of a deadly tornado

The winner of the contest actually gets a cruise, complete with vow renewals, aboard Royal Caribbean International®! Vote away.

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Posted on Mar 10, 2008
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  1. March 10th, 2008 at 03:04 41
    Jennifer Dlugozima

    Thanks so much for the post. Thought you might like to read the release about the winners of the contest:

    Philadelphia Couple Snags Second Honeymoon Grand Prize
    in Farmers’ Almanac® Worst Wedding Weather Contest

    Lewiston, ME: On Feb. 12, 1983, when a record 21-inch snowfall shut down the Philadelphia Inquirer for the first time since the early 1900s, Marianne and Joseph Trovato’s wedding plans were also put on ice. But the couple’s tale of wedding weather woe has a happy ending. Twenty-five years later, after thousands of readers logged onto and voted for the Worst Wedding Weather entry at http://www.farmersalmanac.com, the couple has won the grand prize for the Farmers’ Almanac Worst Wedding Weather Contest.

    The Bensalem, PA couple, who, due to the blizzard had to rescheduled their original wedding date, will soon board a Royal Caribbean Cruise to bask in the sun, and renew their vows.

    “The weather is so important during a wedding ceremony, that we decided we should try to give the couples that didn’t have the nicest weather a chance at a sunnier second honeymoon,” said Farmers’ Almanac Editor Peter Geiger, Philom., “thus the idea for our Worst Wedding Weather Contest.”

    Over the course of about six months, close to 500 contestants entered Farmers’ Almanac’s official Worst Wedding Weather Contest and shared their soggiest, windiest, most hurricane-hampered and hail-ridden wedding weather sob stories. A panel of Farmers’ Almanac judges then chose the 10 best – that is, the 10 worst – entries. These top ten had their stories published on http://www.farmeraslmanac.com/worstweddingweather and between Leap Day, Feb. 29, and St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, visitors to the site could vote for the worst wedding weather story.

    Though the competition was tight, readers chose the Trovatos as the couple with the most compelling wedding weather experience. To read their story, and the other finalists, visit wwwfarmersalmanac.com/worstweddingweather.

    First Runner Up
    Stacy and Clifford White, a Petersburg, Ind., couple whose wedding reception was crashed by an F4 tornado, earned enough votes to win them a $500 gift certificate from L.L. Bean® and became the Farmers’ Almanac Worst Wedding Weather Contest First Runner Ups.

    Second Runner Up
    Christine and Otis Hoffmann, a New Braunfels, Texas, couple whose wedding day was marred by heavy flooding, took third place, or second runner up, and won a winning a $125 Visa/Debit card.

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