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Speaking The Unspeakable: 'Shadow Weddings' Before The Big Day

Wedding rituals are many: The bachelor and bachlorette parties. The toasts. The dressing up in rags and confessing your innermost demons.

OK, that last one is not yet a trend or tradition, but one couple wants to make it one. They call it a “shadow wedding”  – an intimate ceremony and confessional that takes place before the big day.

Married couple Jessica Wolk Benson and Jim Benson join Here & Now’s Robin Young to make their unusual pitch.

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Jessica Wolk and Jim Benson after their "shadow wedding." (Courtesy of the Bensons)
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Jessica Wolk and Jim Benson after their "shadow wedding." (Courtesy of the Bensons)

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