That takes the (wedding) cake

In the course of wedding planning, I have come across a decent number of ridiculous wedding services - from paying hundreds of dollars to freeze dry your bouquet to hiring a composer to write a custom processional just for you. But I recently stumbled onto the craziest one yet: pay this company money for a "SunTender" to "guarantee sunshine on your wedding day with a Sunshine Guarantee Certificate."

As far as I can tell, you ask someone to be your "SunTender" and if they agree - God knows why anyone would - they pay the company $125 for a "Presentation Folio (containing the Sunshine Guarantee Certificate and Gold-plated Lapel Pin) as well as the beautifully bound SunTender’s Guide," which contains training materials about the ins and outs of the complex art of SunTending. The SunTender also pays the company a $250 "Gift Deposit," which is returned if the weather is good, and paid to the bride and groom if it rains. According to the company, this means that "If the sun shines on the wedding day, then it worked. If the sun doesn’t shine, it pays. Either way, it works!"

So, basically you ask someone to pay you money if it rains on your wedding day, and to pay extra money for the privilege of enshrining the whole debacle in the form of a Certificate and a Gold-plated Lapel Pin. I think the whole thing might be a front for some weird religious cult's indoctrination mechanism.

Anyway, this all leads me to the obvious follow-up question: Who wants to be our SunTender??