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If you were married in Savannah, or attended a wedding in this city, consider yourself lucky. While Savannah’s weather has its ups and downs, it has often been spared hurricanes, snowstorms and other weather systems that have ruined many a couples’ Big Day.

In fact, five hundred couples from around the country recently entered the “Worst Wedding Weather Contest”, sponsored by Savannah, GA and Lewiston, Maine-based FarmersAlmanac.com. And, only one of the entries was for a Savannah-based wedding; five were for nuptials that took place in Georgia. (The state with the most entries in the contest was Texas).

Last Friday, FarmersAlmanac.com judges chose ten finalists, who had submitted essays describing their soggiest, windiest, most hurricane-hampered and hail-ridden wedding weather sob stories. They are:

* Two Louisiana couples and a North Carolina couple who had hurricanes crash their wedding parties.
* A Philadelphia area couple whose wedding day plans were postponed by record snowfall.
* A Massachusetts couple caught off guard by a freak snowstorm in May.
* Couples in Minnesota, Oklahoma and Texas whose weddings were dampened by heavy rain.
* A Michigan couple whose Hawaii wedding vacation in paradise felt like an episode of Survivor.
* An Indiana couple whose reception hall became an infirmary in the wake of a deadly tornado.

The public can now vote for the best of the worst wedding weather stories via secure, free online voting at
farmersalmanac.com/worstweddingweather. Voting closes on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2008. Winners will be announced by March 31 on farmersalmanac.com.

The couple with the most votes will win a romantic, seven-night, second honeymoon cruise with Royal Caribbean International, complete with vow renewals, airfare and $1,000 on-board credit.

After voting, check out the free, two-month weather forecast on FarmersAlmanac.com or watch weather video that was featured on the public television show, Farmers’ Almanac TV, produced in Savannah.