{"id":13297,"date":"2012-08-08T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/joburg-snow-fulfils-couples-white-wedding-dream\/"},"modified":"2012-08-08T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:16:35","slug":"joburg-snow-fulfils-couples-white-wedding-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/joburg-snow-fulfils-couples-white-wedding-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo’burg snow fulfils couple’s white wedding dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Aug 8 (Reuters) – A South African couple
\nmarried this week after a bout of unusually cold weather allowed
\nthem to fulfil a light-hearted promise to tie the knot the next
\ntime Johannesburg was covered in snow.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Portuguese emigre Rui Moca and Monique Joubert had planned
\nto wed next year, but when South Africa’s biggest city was
\nshrouded in a rare blanket of snow on Tuesday, Joubert’s sister
\ncalled Jacaranda FM to tell them about the couple’s dream of a
\n“real” white wedding.<\/p>\n

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The radio station leapt into action, organising a minister,
\nlawyer, photographer, flowers, cake and limousine, and the
\ncouple were married on air in the studio in the early evening –
\nwith Moca’s family listening in from Europe over the Internet.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

“The entire wedding with all the bells and whistles was
\norganised in just three hours,” Jacaranda DJ Martin Bester said.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The snowfall was the first in Johannesburg in five years and
\nthe heaviest since 1981. Newspapers ran front-page photographs
\nof snow-clad palm trees and a lion sitting disconsolately in its
\nenclosure at Johannesburg zoo with snow gathering in its mane.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The cold snap also disrupted travel in Africa’s biggest
\neconomy, with drifting snow and sub-zero temperatures shutting
\nthe motorway between the main port of Durban and the economic
\nhub of Johannesburg for at least 24 hours.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Ed Cropley; Editing by Roger Atwood)<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

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\t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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