Tara Garden Chapel

Only @ a York Walmart” – drew quite a bit of attention.Wait, people actually got married at a Pennsylvania Walmart? Yep. Leida Torres and Chrissy L. Slonaker Torres sure did. And it made news beyond Facebook. The local newspaper – the York Daily Record – wrote about the nuptials. (Support local journalism.)The choice of venue isn’t all that unusual when you hear that Torres is a customer service manager at the Walmart Supercenter at the West Manchester Town Center in York County. That's where the couple met in 2015, which makes sense considering that Slonaker works there, too.The story goes a little something like this: Flirting turned into a first date which turned into soul mates which turned into the December 2017 decision to get married which turned into Saturday afternoon at Walmart.When it came time to craft the invitation list, they realized many friends wouldn't be able to attend since they were coworkers and Walmarts don't close. So, the decision was made to move the chapel to them, which is what brought some 100 people to the garden section this weekend.When I called over to the store on Sunday night, Torres’ shift had just ended moments before, so she wasn’t there. She was tied up again at work on Monday, but her newlywed wife called to discuss the wedding and what happened afterwards."It was truly amazing to be with all our family from work. I've worked there for 14 years, so I've grown really close to them," Chrissy told PhillyVoice. "It made the day even more special since they could be there."Their amazing day, however, turned a little sour after people reacted to a photo of the wedding taken by a customer.The attention was "very overwhelming at first," but then some of it turned negative. There were mean comments about same-sex marriages, people claiming "we were too cheap to have a wedding anywhere else" and that we "must have been on drugs" to get married at Walmart."You can't just make assumptions about people. Getting mar... (PhillyVoice.com)