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HIS AND HEARSE
After falling for the local undertaker, a Brazilian woman spent the next two years attending funerals in her community in hopes of catching the man’s eye.
Daniela Signor and Apollo Scariot surprised a lot of people recently when they arrived at their wedding venue in a funeral hearse, but to those who knew their unusual love story, the choice made perfect sense.
Daniela first laid eyes on Apollo in early 2023, while attending the funeral service of a deceased relative, and immediately knew she had to do everything she could to draw his attention.
He was the funeral director and seemed to be too focused on his job to notice her, but she did not let that discourage her. As often as possible, she would attend funerals in her community just to see Apollo, hoping to be seen by him. It took a while, but her strategy actually worked.
Thirty-three-year-old Daniela comes from a small community southwest of Sao Paulo, where every one of the 2,832 residents knows everyone else, so attending all the local funerals, just so that she could see Apollo, did not really seem that strange.
The problem was that the 31-year-old undertaker was not always there, and when he was, he was always focused on his work.
“I used to think, ‘I will give the deceased’s family a hug just so that I can see him,’ you know? But he was not always there,” Daniela said. “He had no idea – I only told him later, when we finally started talking. Then, he was like, ‘Wait, how did I never notice you before?’ But, he was always so busy with his work.”
It took a while, but Daniela finally caught Apollo’s eye, and after dating for a while, the two tied the knot.
They arrived in a hearse because it just fitted their story so well, but they made sure to explain it to everyone.
“Everyone at the wedding was shocked, but during our vows, we explained everything – we told them all our story,” Daniela said. “Then, people understood why we came in that vehicle.”
But, even though it is now their family business, there is something really creepy and wrong about starting a new life together in a death car with the windshield wedding message: “Until death separates us.”
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