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Article: Spin Cycle: Halloween wedding, really bad bank robbers, fat man walking
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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Boo boo hoo
If everything goes well today, Lisa Panensky and Jim Nieves will
become Mr. and Mrs. in a Halloween wedding ceremony. But they won't
be tying the knot at the Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., Old Dutch Church made
famous by Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow."
They booked the church 13 months ago, but when church officials
learned that the bride and groom, as well as the wedding party and
guests, would be wearing costumes, they blew out the candles on the
jack-o'-lantern.
The Rev. Jeff Gargano offered to perform the ceremony in the
adjacent 17th century cemetery, but the couple said no, apparently
fearing that might demean the sanctity of the ceremony.
Modern crime
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