Saying 'I Do' in a Doughnut Shop
‘Sugar is sweet and so are you’ could well have been words used in the wedding vows spoken between Cyndi LaRose and Joseph David Smith when they said ‘I do’ in a doughnut shop.
Their vows were exchanged before a Justice of the Peace in the Honey Dew Donuts shop while the store owner Faraq Mohamed carried on serving customers and asking “Coffee or the wedding”. Two of the regular customers were asked to be witnesses and to add that bit of ‘wedding sparkle’, the owner made the cake and he decorated the shop’s coffee cups
Cyndi 49 who is a caregiver in a nursing home, had been a regular customer of the shop for many years and Joseph 48 who works at a mobile home park had started buying his doughnuts there when his niece began working behind the counter a few years ago.
“I saw this good looking guy standing up there” Cyndi said. “He was a country-looking guy, the type I look for, the Grizzly Adams type.
Mohamed the owner said “I watched as they fell in love” but neither one of them made the first move until a few weeks ago when they both helped with running errands for the shop. Two days after they ‘worked’ together, Joseph asked Cyndi to marry him. The rings were purchased on Friday; they got their licence on Monday and married on the Wednesday.
Thoughts of a beach wedding were quickly put out of minds as it was too cold. Cyndi said “I don’t even own a dress” and Joseph said “You couldn’t get me in a tie”. The obvious venue for them both was the warm inviting doughnut shop where they first met and all their friends hang out – the ideal setting for them both.
The Where and How are Not Important
This is a typical case of ‘it’s not important where or how you get married’; it’s your love, trust and promises to each other that are considered the only true and significant factor that matter.
Families seem to think it’s their cue to ‘help’ and ‘advise’ you on how, where, what and when to do things on your special day – even though you have not asked for it, and judging by stories heard today, stress and tension between families are becoming common place for something that should be a happy, joyous and memorial time leading up to the wedding.
Having your family and friends spend one of the most important days of your life, to share with them the blessing of marriage is a joy in itself and not every future bride or groom to be want the whole wedding package of white linen, bows and ribbons, or indeed have to do so on a budget. Remember then what is important, and getting married while falling out of an aeroplane in a parachute fall, scuba diving or on a beach, it’s the vows that are spoken between a couple that is binding and means more than words can say.
