5 COUPLES SAID 'I DO,' BUT ONLY 2 REALLY WED.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Staff Writer VALENCIA - They shouted their vows from Magic Mountain's newest thrill ride, but most of the couples participating in a Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. promotion who said ``I do'' never did. Broadcast live on KIIS-FM (102.7), Thursday's event, touted as ``Wedding vows taken to the X-treme,'' featured five couples who won a chance to get married on X. And all walked away with prizes, including an eight-day trip to Hawaii and season passes to Six Flags For the national flags of Texas, see . Six Flags (NYSE: SIX) is the world's largest chain of amusement parks and theme parks and is headquartered in New York City. There are 20 such parks run by Six Flags. California's Magic Mountain. But the official who administered the vows at the top of the coaster's 200-foot drop admitted Tuesday that just two of the couples produced a marriage license. The rest might have said ``I do,'' but the nuptials weren't valid. ``I made it clear to everyone from KIIS KIIS Kansai Institute of Information Systems to Magic Mountain to family who were gathered there - the only people who are getting legally married up there are the ones who have a valid license,'' Frank Woods Frank Woods may refer to:
``I really kind of resent in some ways that I was caught in the middle here. I told everyone a half-dozen times that if they rode the roller coaster What a bad CD-R disc is often called. See CD-R and underrun. , that was up to KIIS and Magic Mountain. But I could not legally marry them.'' Andy Gallardo, manager of public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most for Magic Mountain, said he was unaware some of the couples were merely posing as brides and grooms, stressing that the event was meant to be fun. ``I think when you do these kinds of promotions, there's going to be some glitches in communication,'' Gallardo said. ``There were a few (couples) who didn't have their paperwork. I'm assuming that they all intended to follow up and finish it.'' Gallardo said it was KIIS-FM that promoted the event and secured the contestants. Von Freeman Earl Lavon Freeman Sr. (born October 3, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois) is a hard bop tenor saxophonist. He is also the father of Chico Freeman. He learned saxophone as a child and at DuSable High School his band director was Walter Dyett. , vice president of marketing for Clear Channel, the parent station of KIIS-FM, said station organizers were unaware that most of the participants wouldn't be getting married that day. ``We do a lot of promotions. We have to take people at their word. We don't have the resources to look into everyone's background. We weren't trying to mislead anyone. It was a wacky idea, at best.'' As for the prizes awarded to couples who didn't marry, Freeman said the station will examine its options. ``We need to investigate this further,'' he said. ``With this new information, one of those (married) couples, or both, may end up with a trip.'' The couple who won the weeklong trip to Hawaii, Christina Nance and Jason Scott Jason Scott is the name of several persons:
prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Woods, but sat in the coaster's front row, the 20-year-old ``bride'' dressed in a white satin wedding gown and veil. Neither Nance nor Scott could be reached for comment. New groom Curtis Davis registered for the contest at the station's Internet Web site and said he was thrilled when he learned he and his fiance, Jessica, were invited to wed on the coaster and try for a trip to Hawaii. ``I knew there were only two couples that were really getting married,'' Davis, 20, said in a phone interview from Anaheim. ``I thought that was bull'' when another unmarried couple won the trip to Hawaii. ``I was upset by it, but when we won the cruise to Mexico, I figured, at least we tried.'' Davis said Tuesday he thought the promotion was unfair and that Magic Mountain and KIIS-FM misrepresented the event. ``I was upset because there were actually two (couples) getting married,'' he said. ``It should have been the two (couples) getting married that should have been in the contest. No one else.'' Davis said the contest turned out to be an easy way to win airline tickets and free season passes to the theme park, regardless of whether the couples met the criteria. ``Anyone could have come and won something. It wasn't that you really had to get married,'' he said. |
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