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Sat 06 Jun 2010Honeymoon testers get down to work
They’ve renewed their vows eight times, having won the ‘Ultimate job in Ireland’. Now DENISEand MARK DUFFIELD-THOMASare off to Zanzibar after love-ins in New York, Kenya and Mauritius
DRESSED IN burnt orange robes with red ochre decorating our faces, my groom, Mark, cloaked in goat skin, is given a giraffe-tail fly swish. I’m decorated in colourful beaded necklaces and given a gourd to carry under my robes to represent the children we would have. We’re both led down a path to face the chanting and singing men and women. Our Masai wedding in Kenya begins.
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