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Promises are sometimes hard to keep, but this brother made a promise to his sister five-years ago and this was a promise he kept and saw fulfilled.
But what’s most amusing about this promise is that it involved a wedding and a llama in a tuxedo. Yes, tuxedo.
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Mendl Weinstock made a promise to his sister Riva five-years ago and he was serious about it. The promise? He promised that when she got married, he would bring a llama to the wedding.
And a llama to the wedding he brought!
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On a road trip from their home in Ohio to Indiana, 17-year-old Riva was fantasizing about her future wedding “as if it was going to happen tomorrow,” Mendel said to BuzzFeed News. “Just to tick her off, I said I wasn’t going to come to the wedding.”
Riva was not happy with that notion and called Mendl out for being a bad brother. The brother decided to compromise and said, “if you make me come to the wedding, I’m going to bring a llama with me.”
While Riva was not happy with the proposition, she reluctantly agreed that if that was what it took to get Mendl at her wedding, the llama would be allowed to come too.
“So ever since she said those words to me, I promised her and vowed that I would bring a llama to the wedding,” Mendl said.
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And Mendl’s chance came when his sister got engaged last October.
He managed to find a farm in Ohio that would rent him a full-sized llama named Shocky for the wedding. And, he got a coworker to sew Shocky a tuxedo just for the big day!
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Of course, Riva had fair warning that a llama would be in attendance at the wedding. But that doesn’t mean that she wasn’t still shocked to see a llama in a tuxedo when she walked out!
"She has told me that for the first few years she definitely thought it was bluffing, but as we got closer to the wedding and especially after she got engaged, she realized I was serious," said Mendl.
"My sister walked outside and had this humongous gaping looking on her face," he said. "There’s nothing that can really prepare you for walking outside and seeing a llama."
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Shocky was a big hit at the wedding!
Shocky was greeting guests and posing for pictures for a couple of hours, accompanied by his handler, of course.
While Riva may have been surprised to see a llama in a tuxedo at her wedding, it did definitely make her big day one that her guests who never forget!
"She might have been a little mad at first, but she was in on the joke and she definitely realized it was funny and she hasn’t held a grudge or anything," Mendle said. "But she did say she’d get me back at some point in the future."
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We’re definitely loving Shocky in a tuxedo!
Have you ever kept a promise that lasted five years or more? Was it as fun as this? Let us know!
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