After the wedding ceremony the robed Klansmen went to a nearby field where they burned a cross

on assignment for a Norwegian magazine gained access to the racist group


Haunting pictures have emerged showing the wedding of two Ku Klux Klan members. The photos show the couple tying the knot underneath a noose in a Tennessee barn, and celebrating afterwards by burning a cross in a nearby field.

Reporter Vegard Tenold Aase and photographer Peter van Agtmael witnessed the KKK wedding while on assignment for the Norwegian magazine A-Magasinet.

Two KKK members during their wedding ceremony in a barn in rural Tennessee last summer

The wedding was attended by friends and family who also belong to the Ku Klux Klan

After the wedding the couple munched on a dark chocolate cake with white, blue and red frosting

A KKK member wraps a cross in old clothes and burlap sacks. The cross was later doused in paraffin and set alight in a field

The groom had been married before, but his ex-wife could not accept his Klan membership. His bride, on the other hand, hails from a family that has been tied to the KKK for generations.

After the barn wedding, which took place last summer, the couple walked to a field where a cross had been erected. The cross was made from a newly cut birch tree and wrapped in old clothes and burlap sacks.

In the field, the bride and groom held hands while the paraffin-drenched cross burned.

The newly-wed bride and another KKK members embrace in front of a burning cross in a field in rural Tennessee

During the sinister ceremony KKK members gather around a burning cross