It's not uncommon for a groom or bride to honor a deceased
parent on their wedding day, but one America couple took it a step further,
exchanging vows in front of their parents' gravestones at their wedding
recently.
While it might seem like a strange venue to most guests,
Diane Waller and Randy Kjarland told the Austin Daily Herald that they felt
that it was the right way to include their parents in their Big Day, since
their parents had always approved of their relationship.
“How cool is that?” Waller told the newspaper. “To honour
our parents and family, to have them with us in a weird sort of way.”
As expected, not everyone approved of the couple's odd
decision to wed at the Oakwood Cemetery in Austin, Minnesota. "Some people
think it’s a joke, but it’s actually going to be very respectful of why we’re
there,” Waller said before the wedding ceremony. “Other people, when they hear
our story, have cried.” Approximately 50 to 60 guests attended the graveyard
wedding.
But according to the couple, the cemetery seemed like the
right place to wed since Kjarland originally proposed to Waller in front of her
parents' gravestones -- after respectfully asking for permission to marry their
daughter, of course.
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