Strange But True Wedding / Marriage Facts

Hindu men believed it to be unlucky to marry for a third time, so to get around this, they first married a tree - then the tree was burnt, leaving them another option.

One of Queen Victoria's wedding gifts was an enormous cheese, weighing half a tonne and with a diameter of three metres.

Women from the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific marry at birth.

Lady Astor is reported to have said to Winston Churchill: "If you were my husband I'd poison your coffee." To which he replied: "If you were my wife, I would drink it."

Ethelred "The Unready", the 10th. century king of England is believed to have spent his wedding night in the same bed with his wife and his mother-in-law.

King Solomon of Israel had 700 wives and hundreds of mistresses.

In 2007, Andy Priaulx, the double World Touring Car Champion, was to be the Best Man at the wedding of Carlee & Andy Richmond, but he couldn't attend as he was in Brazil for the first qualifying session of the season. So he had a life-size cardboard cut-out of himself created to stand in for him and his Best Man speech was delivered on a pre-recorded DVD.

The term: "Best Man" originates from the time when it was the tradition for Scotsmen to abduct their brides. The member of the gang who contributed most to the abduction was awarded the title of "Best Man".