{"id":732,"date":"2010-12-27T01:09:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T01:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/Wordpress\/?p=732"},"modified":"2010-12-27T01:09:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T01:09:40","slug":"christmas_addict_to_marry_tree_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/christmas_addict_to_marry_tree_","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Addict To Marry Tree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"200\" alt=\"christmas addict mad man\" src=\"\/images\/NewsImages\/2010\/xmas_man.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A man who has celebrated Christmas every day for the past 17 years is set to marry a Christmas tree, according to <i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/3312466\/Man-to-wed-his-Christmas-tree.html\">The Sun<\/a><\/i>. Forty-seven-year-old Andy Park, also known as Mr Christmas, has eaten Christmas dinners every day since 1993, eating mince pies, sipping champagne and watching a recording of the Queen&rsquo;s speech every afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Park says he is serious about marrying the plastic tree &ldquo;who&rdquo; he has &ldquo;known&rdquo; for two years.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I love my Christmas tree more than anything else, so that&#8217;s why I want to marry it,&rdquo; he foams. &ldquo;I&#8217;ve already got a ring, although I&#8217;m not sure yet which branch I&#8217;ll want to hang it on. The only problem seems to be finding a vicar who is willing to do the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I can&#8217;t see why we can&#8217;t be joined in matrimony. I&#8217;ve heard of other people marrying their pets and so on, so why can&#8217;t I get hitched to my tree?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Park had to scale back the daily festivities when the credit crunch hit. Formerly spending some &pound;500 a week on turkeys <i>et al<\/i>, he now spends about &pound;200 a week.<\/p>\n<p>People call him &ldquo;crackers,&rdquo; punned <i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/\">The Sun<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Mr Park is a divorcee.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/catering\/c-197\">Office catering<\/a><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/janitorial\/cleaning-equipment\/brushes\/c-1458\">Brush<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who has celebrated Christmas every day for the past 17 years is set to marry a Christmas tree, according to The Sun. Forty-seven-year-old Andy Park, also known as Mr Christmas, has eaten Christmas dinners every day since 1993, eating mince pies, sipping champagne and watching a recording of the Queen&rsquo;s speech every afternoon. 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