Wedding Party Dines on Flies and Mosquitos

(Guwahati, India) In an area of relentless drought, priests have married two frogs in a ritual aimed to please the rain gods.

More than 2,000 wedding guests attended the ceremony as frog bride Bijuli, which means 'Thunder', and groom Barun, 'Wind', tied the knot.

The amphibians were then fed a special celebratory lunch of flies and mosquitoes.

The "wedding" was held because the region is suffering problems with chronic drought.

A spokesman for local authorities said: "The marriage went off very well."

The blissful couple are expected to honeymoon in mud.