[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/walmart-wedding\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/walmart-wedding\/","headline":"Walmart wedding: couple gets equally wed in the garden department","name":"Walmart wedding: couple gets equally wed in the garden department","description":"This Walmart wedding in Pennsylvania was the perfect way to celebrate a couple whose relationship began while working at the store. ","datePublished":"2018-03-20","dateModified":"2018-03-21","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/author\/emilyrochotte\/#Person","name":"Emily Rochotte","url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/author\/emilyrochotte\/","identifier":5619,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2f3a3d93cba6196f7aeb50eff060379dae87a7bab7b12983b5dbf60b5cc535f4?s=96&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2f3a3d93cba6196f7aeb50eff060379dae87a7bab7b12983b5dbf60b5cc535f4?s=96&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Equally Wed","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"http:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/equally-wed-lgbtq-weddings-logo.jpg","url":"http:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/equally-wed-lgbtq-weddings-logo.jpg","width":218,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Walmart-wedding.jpg","url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Walmart-wedding.jpg","height":712,"width":534},"url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/walmart-wedding\/","about":["News","Real LGBTQ+ Weddings"],"wordCount":267,"keywords":["Pennsylvania","Walmart"],"articleBody":"When you meet your partner at work you run into the problem of all your coworkers not all being able to take off of work to attend your wedding.\u00a0 Somebody has to be there to run the 24 hour store.For Leida Torres and Chrissy L. Slonaker Torres, a couple who met while working at Walmart in York, Pennsylvania, it didn’t feel right to get married without all the people who had loved and supported them since the start of their relationship.\u201cWe both have a lot of really close friends that we call family in our Walmart store,\u201d Slonaker Torres told York Daily Record. \u201cWe discussed it with the store manager and the home office so that everybody in our store \u2014 everybody that we share our lives with \u2014 can be a part of the wedding.\u201dWho knew that transforming the garden center of a Walmart into a wedding venue was such an easy transition?\u00a0 Walmart employees set up a tent in the Garden Center and covered the floor with a decorative rug. The tent was decorated with floral arrangements.Guests and customers cheered on as Torres and Slonaker Torres exchanged vows during the ceremony officiated by Robb Green, know as the “Marrying Mayor” of Jefferson.\u00a0Over 100 friends and family members were in attendance to cheer on the newlyweds.\u201cYou shouldn\u2019t judge something by the way it looks because there could be a beautiful story behind it,” said Slonaker Torres. “We met in Walmart, we fell in love at Walmart. We could\u2019ve gotten married any other place, but we chose to get married at Walmart.\u201d"},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Walmart wedding: couple gets equally wed in the garden department","item":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/walmart-wedding\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]