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Updated: 7:28 PM Sep 3, 2008
'Til death do us part: Wedding at a funeral home
St. Joseph, MI A Michigan couple tied the knot, not in a church or a hall, but in a funeral home. The newlyweds say their romance is very much alive! Posted: 5:39 PM Sep 3, 2008Reporter: Alana Greenfogel Email Address: Alana.Greenfogel@WNDU.com |
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This wedding was drop-dead gorgeous.
Roll out the caskets and bring in the cake, Jason and Rachael Storm got married in a funeral home!
"When he proposed the idea, I said, 'Why not? Let's do this. Let's do something truly unique,'" Rachael says, sitting outside Starks and Menchinger Family Funeral Home with her new husband, Jason.
"My bosses said you better pick out your casket now because it's going to be your last day of your life!" Jason adds, laughing.
Well four days after their wedding, Jason and Rachael say marriage was NOT the end of their lives. Their romance is very much alive.
"I was so excited. A great new beginning of my life," Jason says. "Oh, I love her so much. I couldn't be any happier."
Jason works at the funeral home in St. Joseph, Michigan so they got a good deal and quite a good deal of attention. TV and radio stations, as well as newspapers, across the country have been calling them the last few days.
The couple says they just wanted to be different. But for some of their guests, the funeral home wedding was a little…too different.
"I got a lot of people that didn't want to come...got a lot of strange reactions," Jason says.
"Even when we were setting up and planning how we were going to do the chairs and everything, there was a coffin in the room with a gentleman in there because there was a visitation coming right after we had left. That's kind of creepy if you think about it because that's your alter," Rachael shares.
So, it’s a wedding that redefines the vows, “till death do us part.” This time, “death” brought the couple together.
"Would I say this funeral home was like my childhood wedding? Not at all,” Rachael says. “And I wouldn't have it any other way. I really wouldn't."

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