A Sicilian couple are planning a wedding designed to keep money out of the pockets of the mafia.
Fabio Messina, 30, and Valeria Di Leo, 29, are part of a campaign against the payment of "pizzo" protection money, Italy's Ansa news agency reports.
The two say everything from the bride's dress to the catering and honeymoon will be bought from "Addiopizzo" or "goodbye protection money" businesses.
Palermo officials say 80% of the city's businesses pay off organised crime.
The mafia is estimated to extort 200m euros (£185m; $265m) a day from Italian businesses through pizzo, loan sharking and other crimes, a 2006 report by the national retailers' association Confesercenti shows.
But anti-mafia police say increasing numbers of Sicilian businesses are joining a grassroots anti-racketeering association called Addiopizzo.
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