There's a new trend rising in the world of wedlock: retail weddings, and it's about as classy as it sounds. In an effort to save money / be kind of ironic? / be totally unironic about commemorating that time you spilled nacho cheese on your loved one, more couples are having weddings in places like Taco Bell, White Castle and Cold Stone Creamery. Of course, it isn't always about food (although it's easy to fall in love over a sack of Sliders). Lisa Satayut and her fiance Drew Ellis will be the first couple ever to be married in a TJ Maxx.
Satayut told USA Today, "The one constant in my life, no matter what, has always been T.J. Maxx." Because sometimes, we guess, the only things that can comfort you are discounted bars of soap and chipped tableware. Later this month she'll walk down the size-8 aisle of the shoe section in front of friends and family. The couple plans to save about $150 by having their wedding at TJ Maxx. (We know, personally, we've always wanted to stand up with a guy in front of our friends, family and a rack of mustard-colored discounted Liz Claiborne blazers.)
Would you have a retail wedding? Just think of the irregular bedding and decorative soaps you could buy with the money you save!!!!












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Tuesday 13 July
By KathieM
Why would anyone want to make their wedding a joke? Gee, how long do you think this one will last?
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Tuesday 13 July
By ashleigh
They only saved $150 by marrying at TJ Maxx? WHAT??? I was hoping that they'd be saving $15,000 by marrying at a mall store! A mere $150 is all they saved?! Good grief! Then why do it there at all?!
Tuesday 13 July
By Lita
Marry at the WalMart, 7-11, or at The Honey Bucket because you met there over steam cleaning portable toilets.... This is what the defense of marriage act should have been about--this, and people who marry four, five, or six times; or who magically get an annullment (purchase it?) after decades of marriage and half a dozen children.
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Tuesday 13 July
By I hate s. dubnow
i hate her allot.
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Tuesday 13 July
By thegrrrr8est
Ahhh, the holy sacrament of marriage. Way to make it meaningless. Seems to me that it's a real mistake to take the one truly important event of your life and turn it into a cheap bid for attention. Whether that's getting married in a clown suit at Chucky Cheese or one of those over-the-top twelve bridesmaids and groomsmen monstrosities, it's all a pathetic show for the folks and has little or nothing to do with the very serious act of merging two lives together. Have all the fun and silliness you want at the reception, but the wedding really shouldn't be turned into a farce. Not if it means anything to the two getting married.
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Tuesday 13 July
By Soapy
I'm so sick of this. Who cares where people get married? How about instead of judging how other people get married, you man up and pray for once? 2012 is on it's way and people don't seem to care. Forget the ironic weddings, repent!
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Wednesday 14 July
By Javi
Shut the fu** up.
Thursday 15 July
By Caitlin
LOL.
Tuesday 13 July
By Marie
Good Grief! As someone who used to work in one of those messy places I hope to goodness they recover the shoe aisle before she goes down it!
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Friday 16 July
By Jackie
And they say gay marriages will ruin marriage. >.
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Wednesday 14 July
By saver
saving of $150.00 is great.You can buy 600 rollos of Charmin ,or 600 tubes of 3.6 oz colgate tooth paste.or 200 jars of wal mart brand baby powder, or 100 packs of good quality condoms or 10 pairs of unisex geans or 30 sleep shirts of the clearance racks in ladies wear or a vaccum cleaner that will suck just about any thing for 2-3 months or 175 gallons of sams water or 225 pounds of bananas or 75 pounds of apples .you should check with the store if you could rent the empty trailer fro couple ohf hours for honey moon .Saving like this why any one should get married in the church.They got the refund on all the clothes they wore for wedding.In fututre wal mart just might come up with a quick marriage plan for $ 100.00 , with a special 2 wedding for $ 75.00
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