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Dec. 7th, 2004 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingDog gets wedding jitters, runs away and hides instead of giving away the bride.
A champagne-coloured guide dog was to have given away his bride boss with a bark, but nerves got the better of him.
Tennessee just let out a soft growl when he was asked to "speak" before his owner, 27-year-old Talita Marais, tied the knot with Peet Nagel, 31.
The confused Labrador then took refuge under one of the benches in the packed chapel in Irene, far away from the flashing cameras.
When the giggling had subsided pastor Edmund Huggett got down to the serious business of marrying the couple.
The guests did not find the wedding too unusual, because Talita's life has been rather unusual.
She started to lose her sight gradually from the age of 16 due to macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary blindness that causes tunnel vision.
She was completely blind by her 21st birthday. She has since regained 16% of her sight, which was just enough to appreciate her wedding dress.
Her guide dog has been at her side for a good couple of years.
The couple decided last year, after the death of the father of the bride that her guide dog should give her away at the pulpit.
A champagne-coloured guide dog was to have given away his bride boss with a bark, but nerves got the better of him.
Tennessee just let out a soft growl when he was asked to "speak" before his owner, 27-year-old Talita Marais, tied the knot with Peet Nagel, 31.
The confused Labrador then took refuge under one of the benches in the packed chapel in Irene, far away from the flashing cameras.
When the giggling had subsided pastor Edmund Huggett got down to the serious business of marrying the couple.
The guests did not find the wedding too unusual, because Talita's life has been rather unusual.
She started to lose her sight gradually from the age of 16 due to macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary blindness that causes tunnel vision.
She was completely blind by her 21st birthday. She has since regained 16% of her sight, which was just enough to appreciate her wedding dress.
Her guide dog has been at her side for a good couple of years.
The couple decided last year, after the death of the father of the bride that her guide dog should give her away at the pulpit.