Couple marries in YMCA pool after finding joy

THE bride walked out of the locker room and onto the pool deck wearing a tutu over her swim trunks and white water shoes.

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She kissed the groom who also wore swim trunks - before the couple held hands to descend the stairs into lukewarm water. They would exit the indoor pool as husband and wife.

Three years earlier, Marlene Parsons, 78, and Edward La Rue Sr., 83, met in the same pool during water aerobics classes when they playfully splashed each other. Both their spouses had recently died, and neither one had an interest in remarrying - a condition they agreed upon when they started dating.

But things change when you fall in love. This month, they got married in the shallow end of an Illinois pool, where their scheduled water aerobics class was cancelled for the wedding ceremony, as Missouri news channel KMOV first reported.

Women wore corsages on their swimsuits, and shirtless men wore ties. A lifeguard carved white foam pool noodles into the shapes of roses.

Parsons and La Rue danced in the water to 1950s R&B songs - all while a man swam laps in the adjacent lane, and the scent of chlorine filled the air.