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      <title><![CDATA[Match made in retail heaven? Couples tie the knot at favorite stores like Taco Bell, Walmart]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1302827164" delta="41 weeks ago"><![CDATA[4/14/2011]]></createdate>
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      <lead><![CDATA[Don't expect a 60-day money-back guarantee with these marriages. Retail stores, including Home Depot, Taco Bell and Walmart, now host weddings - and more and more couples are buying into the retail-wedding option. ]]></lead>
      <text><![CDATA[Some are attracted by the low cost of these weddings and the novelty of them, while others just want to express their brand loyalty. Although retail weddings are still a novelty, they are becoming more mainstream, theknot.com's executive editor, Rebecca Dolgin, told USAToday.com. Carolyn Weatherly, 56, and Audwin Mosby, 55, were the latest couple to tie the knot in-store.The Home Depot employees were wed in the garden section of the Lake Forest, Calif., store, under a stage decorated with flowers and built with lumber and supplies from the store last month.The hundred guests – including the couple's children from previous marriages (who also work at the store), friends, staff and invited customers - sat on benches fashioned out of boards laid on top of orange buckets.The newlyweds chose the location because, as the bride told the Orange County Register, Home Depot feels like a second home; their colleagues are like family. To top it off, Home Depot didn't charge the couple, because the materials used could be sold once disassembled.Home Depot isn't the only store hearing wedding bells.  Some couples, like Paul and Caragh Brooks, longed to “Run for the Border.”The duo tied the knot last year at one of their favorite hangouts, a Taco Bell in Normal, Ill. As customers ordered tacos and burritos, the couple exchanged vows in one of the orange booths.“It's appropriate," groom Paul Brooks told The Associated Press about the wedding. "It's an offbeat relationship." The store was festooned with streamers and balloons. Employees held up hot-sauce packets labeled, “Will you marry me?”The $200 price tag, which included ceremony and reception expenses, gave the couple something else to smile about.The restaurant chain typically hosts about one wedding per year, spokesman Rob Poetsch told USAToday.com.Meanwhile, retail giant Walmart is living up to its reputation as a one-stop destination – even when it comes to weddings. Debra Bechtel and Mark Champagne met at the Palm Harbor location as co-workers, purchased rings from the store's jewelry department, held their ceremony there and even received gifts through the company's wedding register.Walmart wasn' their initial choice, but after the couple told a store manager about their dilemma, the manager suggested having the reception at the store, where there would be space for all the guests."Everyone works here," the bride told the St. Petersburg Times. "The guy walking me down the aisle, the woman performing the ceremony, the maid of honor and the best man, everyone."After the sweethearts said their vows, the guests chanted a modified Walmart cheer: "W-A-L-M-A-R-T! Who's No. 1 today? Debbie and Mark!"]]></text>
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