White Castle Weddings: Couples Tie The Knot At Fast Food Restaurant (VIDEO)

For fast food lovers, White Castle is a kind of high church. So it's only fitting that a wedding would one day be held at the burger chain.

In 2009, it actually was, when Clinton Smith and Rosemary Coones tied the knot at a downtown Louisville, Kentucky White Castle -- the world's largest location of the restaurant. The pair won their nuptials in a contest sponsored by the fast-food chain and local radio station DJX 99.7. The wedding, which featured a burger-shaped cake and a performance by the band White Tie Affair, was supposed to have been held in a nearby park, but the couple wasn't able to go through with the original plan because of a budget-related park closure. The change of venue was perhaps meant to be: in the video, bride Coones explains that her parents had their first date at White Castle, and as a child, she would return to the establishment with them every year on Valentine's Day. So it's appropriate that the wedding be held not only at the restaurant, but on Valentine's Day, no less.

Groom Smith is equally sentimental. In the video he says: "It's about how much we care about each other and love each other that matters, not where it's at or who all is there."

Sure, Smith and Coones' wedding video isn't exactly new, but we couldn't resist revisiting it, especially because the White Castle couple is hardly alone.

The following year, another Louisville couple followed in their footsteps, walking down the (grease-stained?) aisle on Valentine's Day in another station-sponsored contest (the nuptials were followed by burgers, fries and onion rings served on silver platters, according to a report).

In February 2011, an Ohio couple said "I do" again, this time at their local White Castle.

Then, in April of 2011, another Michigan couple planned their own "royal wedding" at a White Castle on the same day as William and Kate's nuptials. Marquisa Benford and Donavhan Gray met at a White Castle restaurant in 2009 and held their ceremony there with the help of another wedding contest, this time from local radio station 98.7.

So what do you think--would you ever tie the knot at a White Castle?

Via BuzzFeed

Comments

[akraft22]

11:19 PM on 01/04/2012

What a great idea. It sure beats having to address the dietary restrictions of all of my wedding guests and hunting them down to confirm whether they want the shrimp, beef or vegetarian dish with dinner. http://jadedbride.wordpress.com/

[Donteven]

08:09 AM on 01/03/2012

I wonder if anyone thought about inviting Harold and Kumar ^_^

[liephman88]

05:02 AM on 01/03/2012

Don't ya just hate it when them rich folks flont their money by having these big dollar weddings!

[candyazzbb]

04:58 AM on 01/03/2012

i think its awesome.. why not.. its better than those stuffy weddings where u have to spend too much and be all fake for the guests lol

[edm40]

12:09 AM on 01/03/2012

true love. I hope they toasted with peptobismol.

[interject]

11:59 PM on 01/02/2012

Get Married at a White Castle? I wouldn't eat that crap, why would you want to get married there?

[pixgirl922]

11:51 PM on 01/02/2012

At least you know the food at the reception will be good! LOVE White Castle.

[itolduso]

11:48 PM on 01/02/2012

My husband and I went to Golden Corral after tying the knot at City Hall - it was an absolutely stressless, fun, love filled day, the food was great, we didn't go into debt, and when we visit our loved ones in other states-we have great fun 'recreating' the experience for those who couldn't join us that day. I see a future filled with an endless buffet of joyous laughter and love....doesn't get any better than that.

[babby201]

11:47 PM on 01/02/2012

looks like he'll be doing some heavy lifting on the honeymoon

[babby201]

11:46 PM on 01/02/2012

also known as FARTBURGERS

[greglucas]

11:25 PM on 01/02/2012

Would I get married at a White Castle? I wouldnt get married at a portable toilet convention!

[meleagrid]

10:55 PM on 01/02/2012

That surely takes the slider for weddings. We're extremely impressed with the creative American mind...

[belldn3]

10:53 PM on 01/02/2012

It would be the South. I'm so glad Ms. Coones is not Black. I'm not racist, but come on......Coones is her last name, or was her last name. They have names like that down South?

[thetruckerking]

09:54 PM on 01/02/2012

Would I get married in a White Castle? No, but I wouldn't get married again anywhere even if someone was holding a gun to my head. A happily married couple requires two things... A woman and some poor sucker willing to do whatever she tells him to do. Go ahead and tell me I'm wrong but make sure you ask your little honey's permission to use the computer first. I did see a guy once who claimed to be happily married while I was in Egypt. He was swimming in de Nile. Yeah, I guess maybe I'm a little bitter but I'm happily bitter.

[candyazzbb]

04:59 AM on 01/03/2012

a happy marriage is when two people will die for each other and will do anything for the love... its real.

[mikebirish]

09:37 PM on 01/02/2012

The whole idea of being married at White Castle is ludicrous. Marriage is in trouble nowadays because it's no longer looked at as a sacrement. Now it's just a formality (if that) that can be done anywhere and the more ridiculous the location, the better. It's no wonder that there are so many divorces. Nobody takes it seriously anymore.

[itolduso]

11:38 PM on 01/02/2012

A couple spending massive sums of money (often borrowed) on an elaborate ceremony and feast is not a good measure of how 'seriously' they take marriage

[candyazzbb]

05:00 AM on 01/03/2012

how is it not serious? she said her parents met at white castle for their first date and took the bride there as a girl.. so it is symbolic and serious.. so what if its fast food. it has meaning.