The reason why Canada should be the place to tie the knot for Canadians ... not foreign countries

I admit it's terrible that this happened to the newly weds from Ontario...and that too on their wedding day!   However,  I often wonder why many Canadians opt to tie the knot, which should be one of the most important days of their lives, not in their own country but away from home.  Strange human behaviour!

Adam Carter writing at CBCNews:
A newlywed Ontario bride is frantically trying to free her husband and his cousin from a Dominican Republic jail "hellhole"— and she says she's left doing it with next to no help from the Canadian government.

“I was with Nick maybe eight hours before they took him from me,” Stacey Vernon, 31, told CBC News in Hamilton. “It's awful. We saved every penny to make this a wonderful experience and now we can't even look at our wedding photos.”

Nick Miele, 34, and his 18-year-old cousin Ben Constantini, both of Stoney Creek, Ont., have been behind bars since the early morning hours of May 28 — just hours after Miele and Vernon said “I do” at the Bahia Principe Esmeralda resort in Punta Cana.

Miele is facing months in jail after a fight erupted on his wedding night that his bride says he had no part in.
The trouble started in the 24-hour buffet line around 2:30 a.m., after the reception had wound down. Vernon was in line with one of her friends. “We were talking about the nacho cheese and how they must water it down — and the next thing I knew I was bashed into the buffet table.”

A fight had broken out between two men not in the wedding party, and they fell into Vernon while she was waiting in line. She hit her head on the glass above the buffet and had the wind knocked out of her when she hit the floor. But the men didn't stop fighting.

“I had bruises all over the place because I was getting kicked and punched with them on top of me.”.........