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3 days ago
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- Yahoo
Bride reveals bizarre reason she arrived at her wedding in a hearse — and it's not because she thinks marriage kills joy
'Til death do us part. A bride who arrived at her own wedding in a hearse has revealed the reason she was chauffeured to the church in the unorthodox vehicle. Daniela Signor, 33, sparked social media chatter with the morbid stunt when she wed her partner Apollo Scariot, 31, earlier this month near Sao Paulo, Brazil. The newlywed's reason for the hearse hijinks: her new hubby is an undertaker. 'Everyone at the wedding was shocked, but during our vows we explained everything — we read out our story,' Signor told Jam Press. 'Then people understood why I arrived in the hearse.' Signor explained that she first laid eyes on Scariot at a service for a deceased acquaintance back in April 2023. Signor was so infatuated with Scariot that she subsequently started attending other burials organized by the funeral director in the hope of catching his eye. It took more than a year for Scariot to notice the frequent funeral attendee, but the two began dating last summer and are now wed. 'I used to think, 'I'll give the [grieving] family a hug just so I can see him,' you know? But he wasn't always there,' Signor stated. 'He had no idea — I only told him later, when we finally started talking. Then he was like, 'Wait, how did I never notice you before?' He was always so focused on work.' Scariot says he's shocked by the huge amount of publicity his new bride's wedding hearse stunt has generated, saying funerals are simply a part of their love story. 'We never expected it,' the undertaker uttered. 'We decided to arrive in the hearse from my company because it's part of our story — how we met. So, we were really surprised by the attention it got.'
Wall Street Journal
07-05-2025
- Wall Street Journal
Corruption Stalks Ukraine's Cemeteries as Officials Profit From Dead Soldiers
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine—In the spring of 2023, as war raged in Ukraine, a funeral director and a local government worker met in a city cemetery to make a cash deal for the rights to transport a particularly macabre cargo: 23 dead soldiers. Prosecutors say the official agreed to give the funeral director the contract to bring the bodies from a morgue in Dnipro in return for a quarter of the money the council would pay. They say that later that month, the funeral director met the official to hand him his 13,200 hryvnia cut, some $320.
