Couple baring souls in wedding
By CORISSA JANSEN JOURNAL SENTINEL

Like any bride-to-be, Sherry Olson has a million details to worry about before her big day. But even though she's getting married in three weeks, one thing she isn't obsessing about is the wedding dress.

She won't be wearing one.

In fact, she won't be wearing anything.

Olson and her fiance, Joe Folz, will travel to Jamaica for a Valentine's Day wedding, where the pair from Centuria will join 47 other couples who plan to get hitched without wearing a stitch in what's being billed as the world's largest nude wedding.

"We're different. Obviously," explained Folz, a 31-year-old welder. "Neither one of us are real churchgoing people - no offense to anybody - so we figured we might as well get married in the buff, on the beach."

Folz and Olson are one of two Wisconsin couples who plan to tie the knot at the mass wedding at Jamaica's Hedonism III resort.

From a nude hot tub that starts hopping at around 2 a.m. when the disco crowd takes a dip, to nude bocce ball, mummy wrapping and beer drinking contests, there are activities for both nudes and "prudes," the resort says.

This is the third year for the event, and with nearly 50 couples participating Feb. 14, the resort is looking to get in the "Guinness World Records" book. If it's included, Guinness would have to create a new category for nude mass weddings.

"It really is a beautiful event," says resort official Zein Nakash. "Just because they're naked, it isn't vulgar. It's very tasteful and beautiful."

About a dozen couples got married in the buff in each of the first two years of the mass wedding, which takes place against a backdrop of fig leaves, exotic flowers and the Caribbean Sea.

Focus on vows
"When you see these naked people starting to come out, your initial reaction is, 'Oh my God,'" said Nakash, vice president of marketing for SuperClubs, which runs 14 resorts. "But when you get past the initial shock, after you start seeing the group together, it just becomes body parts Read on