Camo-wearing bowhunters marry in tree

Couple hunt together so much, it ‘just seemed like the right thing to do’

Mike Moynihan

You may kiss the bride — but you have to find her first. Marvin Hunter and Kim Silver donned camouflage and got married in a hunting stand 15 feet above the forest floor near Anamosa, Iowa.

updated 6/30/2010 8:38:41 PM ET

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ANAMOSA, Iowa — An Iowa couple whose passion for bowhunting encouraged Cupid's arrow to strike wore camouflage to blend in with the wooded backdrop at their treetop wedding.

Forty-two year-old Kim Silver dressed in a silk gown made by camouflage specialists Mossy Oak, and her 61-year-old groom, Marvin Hunter, was dressed in camo shirt and pants at the Saturday nuptials.

They said their vows atop a tree stand hunting platform at the Anamosa Bowhunters Archery Club in the state's northeast. The bride and groom occasionally punctuated the ceremony by firing arrows at targets.

Hunter said the couple had always joked about getting married on a tree stand. Silver said the pair hunt together so much that the camo wedding "just seemed like the right thing to do."