Wedding Held in Alaskan Ice Chapel Christmas Day 2008

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As published in the Boston Herald, Michael and Sigret Cook, were married on Christmas Day in a 20 minute ceremony in a ice chapel built for that event. The couple, Michael Cook and Sigret Ball, met over the internet and that sparked a whirlwind Florida to Fairbanks romance. Sigret asked Michale to build her an ice chapel for their wedding.

"Lots of people get married in chapels. I will be the only one married in this chapel," Ball said.

"The chapel was inspired by the Aurora Ice Museum at Chena Hot Springs Resort. The couple approached Dick Brickley and Ice Alaska about building the chapel. The 16-foot by 12-foot chapel is on the corner of First Avenue and Cushman Street in front of the Marriott SpringHill Suites."

"Ball is a former model originally from the Virgin Islands who was living in Tampa, Fla., and Cook is an inventor and president of Polar Environmental Technologies Inc., based in Fairbanks."

The couples religious and spiritual common interests are what attracted them to each other over the myspace community.

Ball was quoted as saying  that they chose the date of Christmas for symbolic reasons.

"We wanted to honor the birth of Jesus and have it represent the birth of a new life together," Ball said.

source: bostonherald.com