Mall of America has played host to more than 10,000 weddings over the years. From a wedding in the shark tank at SEA LIFE Aquarium to couples getting married on the Pepsi Orange Streak roller coast so many of these unions were amazing memories. The Mall event built an ice castle one year and had couples getting married in the middle…it was beautiful and extremely cold! To hear the entire conversation check out So Much More Ep. 83: Cupid’s Guide to MOA Valentine’s Fun.
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[00:00:00] Behind Valentine's Day you have Christmas and New Year's are the top three holidays where people get engaged or when they get engaged. And so we've had some fun stories here. So I'm gonna look to Dan to get us started with whether it was a wedding, a vow renewal or engagement. We've had some fun ones. We've had more than 10,000 weddings at Mall of America. Can you believe that? Wow. 10,000. Well, we had the wedding chapel for so many years. For many years. I remember that.
[00:00:28] And I was up for a couple of those. One was a Valentine's themed one where everyone was in pink, the groom, the bride, everyone. It was awesome, right? And then I remember another one up there where half of the audience was in, it was, I think the bride side was all Green Bay Packers and the groom side was all Minnesota Vikings gear, which was so much fun. But then we've had people get married and we have big weddings too, right? To kind of get media attention. We had people get married on the Ferris wheel, which was so much fun, right?
[00:00:56] And we got media attention. We built an ice palace in our north lot one year and it was so cold. And on Valentine's Day that year, we had a nationally televised wedding for, I think there was seven or eight couples and it was really cold. In fact, if I remember right, I think Nordstrom opened early to help us get some jackets for the brides because it was so cold. That's wonderful. Yes.
[00:01:16] And it was, it was so much fun. We've had people, we had couples get married on the Pepsi orange streak, all the brides in their bridal gowns on the left side, all the grooms in their tuxes on the right. You know, the families were up on the loading dock and, and a justice piece said, had them do their vows and talked about the ups and downs of married life together and bam off they went. And then one of my favorite ones, so when we've done it twice now is a wedding down in sea life in the shark tank.
[00:01:43] The first time it was broadcast live on the Today Show and a shark actually knocked the veil off the bride. Oh my gosh. It was so much fun, right? A little too close for comfort. Too close for comfort, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So scary, but love it. But I think, but we've also done some really cool engagements, including more than once we've had people get engaged. We had one in the rotunda that I was here for that I remembered. It was just beautiful. It was a veteran.
[00:02:07] And then one, there was a lady who I happen to know who got, was proposed to on the very top of the log chute. I know this person. You know that. Yeah, you do know that person and the story. It's so much fun, right? Yes. And he turned around to propose and then the operator said, you must sit down. Or it's some, I forgot what it was. Just a safety and like acknowledgement where it's like, um, you can't do that. Which is like, I'm going to propose to you.
[00:02:36] As they plunged down the hill, what did she say? I do. She like screamed it all the way down. It was awesome. And she's still a friend today that's who's in the marketplace. And they're still married. And they're still married. They're the most important. They're still married. And, yep, it was awesome. It was awesome.