Norwegian Co-Workers Ease Newlyweds’ Path to Threshold
While Tore and Hanne Sandberg were exchanging wedding vows last weekend, friends got busy building their wedding present: a new road.
The couple from Fauske, about 525 miles northeast of Oslo, bought a house 18 months ago but couldn’t afford to improve an often impassable dirt track leading in from the highway, the Nordlands Framtid newspaper reported Tuesday.
So Tore Sandberg’s colleagues from a construction company turned up with backhoes, dump trucks and graders to make sure the newlyweds’ first journey together on the road of life was a smooth one.
“On the gift table . . . there were two pictures of men at work and construction machines in front of our house,” the bride was quoted as saying. “At first I didn’t understand, but then the tears came when I realized that we got a new road.”
The newest street in Fauske already has a name--Bridal Way.
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