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Cross-country drive on 2 gallons of gas
NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Marines who won an on-camera wedding in New York's Times Square during New Year's celebrations said weather forced them to take a 19-hour drive.
Geoffrey Dubie, 23, and Bethany Phillips, 25, who met at the Al Asad Air Base in Iraq in 2009, said their Sunday flight from Atlanta to New York was canceled due to snowstorms in the northeastern United States, leaving them with driving as their only transport option, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.
Get Married Media, the wedding planning company behind the contest won by the couple, provided Dubie and Phillips with a Ford Expedition and a driver. The couple said the drive took 19 hours, about five hours more than they had expected.
Stacie Francombe, founder and editor in chief of Get Married Media, said planners are scrambling to prepare for the ceremony as the intended florist, photographer and makeup artist were stranded out of town by the snowstorm.
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