3 SEP: Scandinavian airline SAS said yesterday it plans to host the first-ever inflight gay wedding in December, and is searching for a suitable couple to walk down the aisle of the aircraft.
"It will be a very traditional wedding," SAS spokesman Anders Lindstroem told news agency AFP.
"There will be wedding cake and dancing in the aisles."
SAS is accepting entries from gay couples who wanted to celebrate their nuptials mid-flight from Stockholm to New York on 6 December, with the winning entry chosen by an online vote.
The airline will pay for the winners’ tickets, hotel accommodation and a honeymoon in Los Angeles, and cater the onboard banquet, with a special wedding menu instead of normal passenger fare.
The wedding couple and their guests will have an entire business class section closed off, in part to avoid offending passengers who might not approve of gay, mile-high matrimony.
"We don’t want to offend anyone. We hope we won’t offend anyone. It is the year 2010 after all," Mr Lindstroem said.
He said the ceremony itself will have to take place in Swedish airspace, where gay marriage is legal.
