Results: 'Cloud Bursting' Service Can Ensure Sunny Wedding Photos for $150,000
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A UK-based company has begun offering a "cloud bursting" service that can 100% guarantee fair weather for your wedding day and photographs. Oliver's Travels, a luxury travel and rental service, has begun offering the service for prospective brides and grooms who are interested in a sunny destination wedding at certain venues in France (the company is planning on expanding availability to the UK and Italy if the concept "takes off"). For a fee starting at £100,000 (~$150K), the company will give a team of pilots and meteorologists 3 weeks to plan and affect the weather on your big day. The technology is called "cloud bursting" (or "cloud seeding") or using a chemical called silver iodide to "seed" the clouds and cause them to rain. By inducing rain and cloud dissipation for 24 hours before the wedding day, the team can guarantee a relatively cloud free and sunny environment on the day of. What is your opinion of this procedure?
Great idea! If only I had the money, I'd be on board
9%
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154 votes
What a waste of money!
26%
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460 votes
Sounds like someone is playing around with Mother Nature!
27%
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473 votes
Interesting idea, but too expensive
15%
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270 votes
Can't comment on this
21%
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373 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
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28 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.34% | 6 | |
| n/a | 0.17% | 3 |
| na | 0.11% | 2 |
| ridiculous | 0.06% | 1 |
| stupid! you cant manipulate the weather! they go end up starting a hurricane! scientist need to chgill with all this foolishness! | 0.06% | 1 |
| this could have negative impacts to the planet if it takes off in a big way. sounds irresponsible to me. | 0.06% | 1 |
| suspicious | 0.06% | 1 |
| a great idea | 0.06% | 1 |
| i don't believe it. | 0.06% | 1 |
| stupid | 0.06% | 1 |
| not appliable | 0.06% | 1 |
| what are the effects of the silver iodide in the rain???? | 0.06% | 1 |
| scam. | 0.06% | 1 |
| terrible idea | 0.06% | 1 |
| its not the weather that keeps love alive. | 0.06% | 1 |
| no idea | 0.06% | 1 |
| leave nature alone! | 0.06% | 1 |
| other | 0.06% | 1 |
| too much too read....no answer | 0.06% | 1 |
| don't care | 0.06% | 1 |
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"Success can be guaranteed," the company says, but if a serious weather phenomenon such as a hurricane occurs, it "cannot be controlled." Do you think this is a slightly suspicious and vague guarantee?
Highly suspicious
31%
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545 votes
No, sounds legit
6%
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106 votes
Not sure--I understand they can guarantee it will work, but some conditions are out of their control
16%
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287 votes
For $150,000 I would want 100% guarantee -- no room for error
19%
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341 votes
Not sure
26%
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458 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
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21 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.34% | 6 | |
| n/a | 0.23% | 4 |
| na | 0.17% | 3 |
| sickos - they are not god! | 0.06% | 1 |
| stupid no way | 0.06% | 1 |
| whole idea is stupid. they just need to get a hall or something if it rains. | 0.06% | 1 |
| don't play with mother nature | 0.06% | 1 |
| na ... where are the simple yes or no answers? | 0.06% | 1 |
| should not be allowed. | 0.06% | 1 |
| leave mother nature alone | 0.06% | 1 |
| stupid | 0.06% | 1 |
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How many of these wedding day weather superstitions have you heard?
Rain on your wedding day is good luck because it signifies that you will have children
10%
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180 votes
Rain on your wedding day is good luck because it signifies the cleansing of tough times or sadness in your past.
7%
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127 votes
Rain on your wedding day is good luck because it signifies that your marriage will last.
12%
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214 votes
Rain on your wedding day is good luck because it signifies washing away of bad memories or occurrences and, in effect, gives you a completely new, fresh chapter in your lif
5%
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94 votes
Rain on your wedding day is good luck because it symbolizes the last tears that the bride will shed for the rest of her life.
3%
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55 votes
Rain on your wedding day is bad luck because it represents the number of tears the bride will shed during her marriage.
4%
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70 votes
If the bride sees a rainbow on her way to the ceremony, it is a very lucky sign for the couple.
5%
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87 votes
Sunshine on the way to the church is good luck.
5%
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86 votes
Snow on your wedding day is a sign of fertility and prosperity.
2%
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27 votes
Familiar with all of these
3%
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61 votes
Not familiar with any of these
66%
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1165 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
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15 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.41% | 9 | |
| n/a | 0.09% | 2 |
| heard of a version of some of the above | 0.05% | 1 |
| na | 0.05% | 1 |
| rain is bad luck on your wedding day, but don't remember why and must have been right, because it rained on my wedding and i'm divorced now | 0.05% | 1 |
| the weather makes no difference. | 0.05% | 1 |
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