TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY NINA LARSON ‚Lifestyle-Sweden-Arctic-Marriage‘
A couple pose for pictures in an ice hotel in Jukkasjaervi. Shivering more from excitement than cold, a bride clad in white silk and fur all but melts into the snowy background on January 9, 2009 as she and her groom become one of around 150 couples to tie the knot at Sweden’s Ice Church this year. „It was like a fairytale. A very powerful feeling,“ 27-year-old Charlotte Axelsson-Andersson (not pictured) says after the ceremony. AFP PHOTO/OLIVIER MORIN