Wal-Mart is typically where I page through entertainment magazines to view the pictures of celebrity nuptials, but who would have thought the discount retailer would also serve as the site for a real-life wedding?
Maybe the tabloids inspired the couple…
Attention Wal-Mart shoppers, there’s a wedding in aisle 6. Actually, according to store managers in Springfield, Ohio, a couple exchanged vows in the lawn and garden section. The newlyweds happened to be Wal-Mart employees who decided to tie the knot Thursday amid the stores flowers, trees and garden hoses.
The 51-year-old groom is an automotive manager at the Ohio store while his 45-year-old bride is an arts and crafts associate. The pair reportedly met during the store’s employee orientation. So when it came time to get hitched they figured why not do so in the place where they met and shared their first date. (The new bride told local news reporters the couple’s first date took place in the store’s furniture section. How romantic.)
I’m not sure what it is about the state of Ohio that lends itself to producing weird and wacky tales, but this next story is one that had me shaking my head for a while.
No mother forgets the day her child was born into the world. Even if she has seven children there is little chance she will forget the day each was born.
But, for a mother of three in Ohio the task of forgetting her children’s birthdays is virtually non-existent. Unless Jenna Cotton suffers amnesia she will likely always remember that October 2nd is a special day.
It is the birthday of her newest child. Daughter Kayla was born Tuesday, which was October 2nd – the same date her brothers were born. Ayden Cotton arrived on Oct. 2, 2003; Logan was born Oct. 2, 2006.
The Ohio mom says her due date was September 30th, but she had a feeling her daughter might come a couple of days late. Right on cue, Cotton says she started having contractions early on October 2nd, hours before a planned birthday party for her sons. Cotton was able to make it through the party and delivered 7-pound, 8-ounce Kayla at 7:07 Tuesday night.
According to statistics professors at Ohio State University, the odds of a family having three children born on the same date in different years are about 7.5 in 1 million.
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