Toni Walker and James Manzano
Well, here we are with another story of an internet introduction that resulted in a fast-food wedding. This one, right down the road outside Easton.
James Manzano and Toni Walker were wed Saturday at the Dairy Queen in Bethlehem Township, where Walker works as an assistant manager.
They pulled the wedding together in three weeks. Are you paying attention? You can do a wedding in three weeks! 24 guests – plus a few wander through customers – with chicken fingers fries and a 3-layer ice-cream cake. (WOW – Wedding Priestess thinks the DQ makes a lot more sense than Taco Bell – there's cake – ice cream cake!)
General manager Luis Romero wanted the ceremony to be held at the Easton Avenue location when he learned Walker was planning a simple wedding at the courthouse. He wanted to be the first in the DQ franchise to have a wedding.
Tables and booths were filled with about two dozen guests, as well as a handful of regular customers who were surprised to find themselves witnesses at a wedding while eating their ice cream. The couple married under an arch of DQ balloons! (That's got to be more fun than a stuffy old courthouse!)
The wedding got great reviews from outsiders: "I thought it was very romantic," said 8-year-old customer Erin Wimmer, from Bethlehem Township. "It's fun to get married at a place you don't usually get married, like where you can get ice cream."
Sagely, the minister pointed out that despite the novelty of the place, the sanctity of marriage was unchanged. Where you marry doesn't matter. (well, ok, much) Why you marry and how you make your marriage work. They have a 10-year age-difference and Toni has a child by a previous marriage. They've got their work cut out for them. But they had fun at their wedding.
Every time someone does something like this, it's an invitation to at least review what you're doing with your wedding to make sure it has meaning for you. One more way to move from "I do" to happily and healthily ever after.
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