A Fox's Wedding

We've been plagued by a series of storms here in the South, but yesterday brought that lovely meterological surprise of Indian rain. Or the devil was beating his wife. Or a witch was getting married. Or making butter. You know, when it rains and sun shines at the same time.

Linguist Bert Vaux knew the expression as a sunshower, but familiar with the term "fox's wedding," he appealed to colleagues and friends and the man on the, er, interweb, as to what they knew the phenomenon to be. The wide variety of responses surprised him. What seems to be fairly consistent is the theme of a wedding, and "wedding" typically being a euphemism for the act of love that immediately follows.

Type of wedding/ Expression's country of origin:

Monkey wedding (South Africa)
Widow’s wedding (Portugal)
Devil’s wedding (abkhaz, Turkey)
Rat’s wedding (Arabic)
Wolf’s wedding (Aramaic)
Bird’s wedding (Armenian)
Bear (Bulgaria)
Monks (Croatia)
Poor people (Greece)
Jackal (Hindi)
Fox (Japan, Italy, Portugal)
Tiger (Korea)
Gypsy (Serbia)
Old woman (Spain)
Elephant (Swahili)
Leopard’s daughter (Uganda)