Burger King To Pay For Wedding Of Groom Named Burger And Bride Named King

Posted by | April 8, 2015 07:30 | Filed under: Good News Top Stories

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Joel Burger and Ashley King will soon be married, and it will be a Burger-King wedding in more ways than one. Dave Bakke at the Illinois State Journal-Register helped make it happen.

The company is paying the expenses and providing gifts for the July 17 wedding of Joel and Ashley in Jacksonville, aka the Burger-King nuptials…

Joel and Ashley have been Burger-King since they were in the fifth grade together in New Berlin. When they announced their engagement this spring, they had their picture taken next to the BK restaurant logo in Springfield. They flipped their names so that Joel’s would be first in the announcement. Normally the woman’s name is first. But then it wouldn’t have been Burger-King, would it?

…This all began innocently enough with SJ-R business editor Tim Landis. He spotted the unique Burger-King engagement announcement and photograph in the Chatham Clarion. He put it on my desk in case I thought it could make a column. For my part, all I had to do was recognize it as one.
Since Ashley had already tried to reach out to the Burger King company, but unsuccessfully, I sent an email to the company’s media relations representative. I soon heard from Alison Brod Public Relations in New York City, the company that has the Burger King account. I sent them an email about the wedding, they contacted the company, and Burger King took it from there.

Which culminated Monday afternoon when Joel and Ashley got the big news from Burger King via Skype. The connection was between New Berlin and New York City and we can’t say that very often, can we? Ashley’s dad, Vince King, was there to help celebrate, as was Joel’s mom, Cindy Burger.

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8 responses to Burger King To Pay For Wedding Of Groom Named Burger And Bride Named King

  1. jybarz April 8th, 2015 at 07:47

    Is this one in a million coincidence?
    Maybe one in a billion.
    I just hope the wedding party is not served mainly with burgers… well, maybe mix it up with pizza from Memories Pizza, but unfortunately it’s gone with $800,000 donation from ‘religious freedom’ bigots.

  2. Warman1138 April 8th, 2015 at 07:52

    Cool, only in America.

  3. rg9rts April 8th, 2015 at 08:08

    and soon they will commence to make whopper jrs

  4. Pilotshark April 8th, 2015 at 08:31

    Well this is nice of BK, was thinking that BK was going to sue them for copy right infringement by using Burger King on their inventions :^)

  5. Hirightnow April 8th, 2015 at 11:18

    Pizza weddings would be (IMHO) kinda tacky, but this one slides under the “Too cute not to” bar by a good margin.

  6. Snick1946 April 9th, 2015 at 12:47

    Wonder if the groom has a ‘whopper’?

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