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 鈥淧astafarian鈥 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 鈥淭op R鈥橝men,鈥 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.
鈥淲e are a bona fide church and our people do like to get married, some of them several times,鈥 she said.
鈥淲e like to have baptisms and babies and celebrations and divorces and it鈥檚 always nice to have an official marriage celebrant to preside over these celebrations.鈥
The wedding feast would be pasta, 鈥渢he main holy meal,鈥 the Top R鈥橝men said, and the wedding dress distinctive.
鈥淭he colander is the traditional headgear but if you also wish to dress up as a pirate that鈥檚 also approved because of course the first people that the flying spaghetti monster created were pirates.鈥
Registrar-General Jeff Montgomery, who approved the Pastafarians right to apply to be marriage celebrants, told Radio New Zealand it was 鈥渙ne of the more unusual鈥 requests he has received but they met the conditions of the Marriage Act.
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