Nod for colander hats and flying noodles weddings
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Colander-wearing members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster could soon be legally married in New Zealand after the church was approved to hold “Pastafarian” marriage ceremonies.
Church adherents, who wear colanders on their heads, revere pirates and believe the universe was created by a flying noodle, have been recognized in New Zealand as a bona fide organization.
Their right to nominate marriage celebrants was approved on December 10 and the church head, the “Top R’Amen,” was reported yesterday saying she had filed her application and hoped to begin conducting Pastafarian weddings next month.
The woman, who requested anonymity, earlier told Radio New Zealand it was only right that marriages in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster be recognized.
“We are a bona fide church and our people do like to get married, some of them several times,” she said.
“We like to have baptisms and babies and celebrations and divorces and it’s always nice to have an official marriage celebrant to preside over these celebrations.”
The wedding feast would be pasta, “the main holy meal,” the Top R’Amen said, and the wedding dress distinctive.
“The colander is the traditional headgear but if you also wish to dress up as a pirate that’s also approved because of course the first people that the flying spaghetti monster created were pirates.”
Registrar-General Jeff Montgomery, who approved the Pastafarians right to apply to be marriage celebrants, told Radio New Zealand it was “one of the more unusual” requests he has received but they met the conditions of the Marriage Act.
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