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To everybody's favourite reading, Fort Lauderdale's South Florida Sun-Sentinel, which reports that an "ordained Jewish cantor," Debbie Ballard, is training at a Florida scuba shop in order to perform Jewish weddings under water.
Apparently they get round the glass-smashing by getting the groom to smash a lightbulb with his flipper, while later the couple "sip wine out of a sippy cup", whatever that may be.
The paper has gone as far as consulting local rabbis for an expert opinion.
"As long as certain traditions are kept, the ocean wedding could be legal according to Jewish law, said Reform Rabbi Barry Silver, of L'Dor Va-Dor congregation in Boynton Beach, Fla.
"Rabbi Richard Polirer, of congregation Beth Hillel in Margate, Fla., said the idea could grow on him.
"But he said he doesn't know if couples should do it just for the sake of it.
'Just because you can doesn't mean you should,' he said."
Like they say: only in America.