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It’s the End of the World and I Feel Fine
By MARGAUX LASKEY
Published: December 21, 2012
SOME choose to marry on a numerically auspicious date (12/12/2012; 11/11/2011 to name two). Others are more focused on the proximity of the sun — as in “will I be warm, but not too warm in my expensive wedding gown?” Still others find that to wed on doomsday is a perfectly romantic notion.
Doomsday? There were numerous articles about the 5,125-year-old Mayan calendar, the last day of which was Friday, Dec. 21. To some, this date also meant the end of time. Period.
Doomsday? There were numerous articles about the 5,125-year-old Mayan calendar, the last day of which was Friday, Dec. 21. To some, this date also meant the end of time. Period.
People the world over were stocking up on supplies in preparation for a potential apocalypse, and in the case of a man in China, a version of Noah’s Ark was being built.
Lona Cook, a chiropractor, and Kyle Klocke, an electrician, both from Minneapolis, instead chose to play out their own happily-ever-after scenario that day with a wedding attended by 12 guests at Cahal Pech, a Mayan ruin near San Ignacio, Belize.
Ms. Cook and Mr. Klocke are neither thumbing their noses at the end-of-the-world gang, nor embracing them. In fact, they didn’t specifically set out to get married on Dec. 21, but the couple, who wanted a short engagement and a destination wedding, came across on the Web, Romantic Travel Belize, a planning service specializing in weddings. Ms. Cook, who keep reading..