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By Kerstin Bruun-Hansen
Translated by Tanja Cim Olesen

”A church wedding was a bit over the top and city hall too boring.” This is Signe Rejs’ simple explanation as to why she and her boyfriend Jakob Buch chose an untraditional wedding yesterday.

Apart from the white dress and wedding rings, the setting was quite unusual: a dusty field in campin area East at Roskilde Festival.

One-day wristbands for the wedding guests

”Well, now I just have to make sure that it’s the right date,” the town councillor from the Municipality of Roskilde, Torben Jørgensen, says with a smile while reaching for some papers in his bag.

The crowd of wedding guests are laughing and toasting underneath two connected pavilions that serve as church on this occasion. Suits and silk dresses are left at home – the dress code is rather Bermuda shorts, flip flops and a thick layer of sunscreen.

”Roskilde Festival has been extremely helpful, so those of our friends and family who hadn’t bought a ticket got a one-day wristband,“ the bride explains.

The bride is wearing spotted stilettos and a white dress with a tutu – an outfit topped off with red hair, piercings and a large colourful tattoo on the left upper arm.

”Go get a tent”

While the groom’s mother opens her first beer, standing on the lawn in front of the exited couple, the town councillor begins his speech.

”Dear Stine and Jakob. You both have been to this festival a lot of times and you’ve had many wonderful experiences and met a lot of friends. So what could be more obvious than celebrating you wedding here?” he asks rhetorically.

After that, Jakob says his ’yes’, and the guests toast and applaud.

”And now the excitement intensifies,” the town councillor says, while the groom’s mother empties her Green Tuborg.

The suspense is not kept for long though – one second later Stine also says ’yes’, followed by joint toasting and cheering, whistling and the mandatory kiss.

”Get a tent!” someone yells as the kiss gets rather wet and long – and while a guest with a tie made of duct tape walks around and serves marzipan ring cake, the town councillor also gets a cold festival beer to toast with. 

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