Coral and Mio swapped a traditional champagne toast on their wedding day for bong hits (Picture: Kennedy News / Rachel Artime Photo)

Who needs flowers when you have greenery?

When Coral and Mio tied the knot, they decided to change up the traditional champagne toast.

Instead they opted for personalised Mr and Mrs bongs, taking puffs together and blowing smoke into the camera as photographer Rachel Artime snapped away.

The end results are surprisingly beautiful, don’t you think?


The bongs were on-theme for the couple, as Rachel had also taken engagement photos of Coral and Mio smoking blunts.

Coral also had hemp in her wedding bouquet.

Coral also had hemp in her wedding bouquet (Picture: Kennedy News / Rachel Artime Photo)

Rachel, from Los Angeles in California, US, said: ‘I’m really happy with the pictures. I love the smoke. It makes them look haunting and romantic in a weird way.



‘I’ve never had to photograph anything like this before. This is the most unconventional and non-traditional thing to happen at a wedding [I’ve been to].

‘Every wedding I’ve done is the most normal thing ever, so this is quite the experience to be photographing people literally smoking a blunt at their wedding. It was like nothing I’d ever seen before.

They had their bongs custom made to say Mr and Mrs (Picture: Kennedy News / Rachel Artime Photo)

Weed is now legal where they tied the knot (Picture: Kennedy News / Rachel Artime Photo)

The photos have been shared more than 40,000 times (Picture: Kennedy News / Rachel Artime Photo)

‘People all over my Instagram were so into it. People were saying they had never seen this. I have never seen a bong at a wedding.

‘With the positive feedback on a drug that was illegal and is now legal, it’s just fascinating to see how people are supportive and love the photos.

‘It was all mine and Coral’s vision and their passion.

‘It’s cool to see a bride and groom’s passion in all they plan for their wedding, and to be so supported [globally]. It’s their story.

The end result of the pics is surprisingly gorgeous (Picture: Kennedy News / Rachel Artime Photo)

‘Coral is wonderful – she knows what she wants. She told me she wanted this photo with the smoke and we had engagement photos done in the same way.

‘They were really excited about their matching Mr and Mrs bongs, which were handmade and very cool.

‘Being in Santa Cruz in a redwood forest, and in her white dress, the contrast was just so pretty with the white smoke. It’s not a conventional wedding photo at all.

‘It was so fun because I do a wedding a weekend, so it was like a creative challenge to have new things to work with.’

Coral shared a selection of her wedding images online with the caption: ‘to have and to toke, forever and ever’.

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