Our Wedding Day Dairy Queen® Stop
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As I was scanning my personal Facebook account recently, I noticed that a friend of mine had just been in a wedding. So I was nosey and checked out the photos of her in the wedding. Among the pictures were shots of the bride and groom stopping at a Dairy Queen® store on their way to the reception. Intrigued, I contacted the bride and groom and asked them to share their story.
As I was scanning my personal Facebook account recently, I noticed that a friend of mine had just been in a wedding. So I was nosey and checked out the photos of her in the wedding. Among the pictures were shots of the bride and groom stopping at a Dairy Queen® store on their way to the reception. Intrigued, I contacted the bride and groom and asked them to share their story.
Here’s Matt and Karen’s Story:
It seems that as we grew up together, there was always ice cream involved. Throughout the years, major events always involved ice cream. While dating in high school, our first date was going out for ice cream. Following college, we both performed in the local outdoor theatre for three years and ended each evening rehearsal with ice cream. And while some people meet for coffee to chat, we always met for ice cream. To continue our pattern, we both ran our first marathon together on a hot, humid day in Duluth, Minn. Following the race, only yards from the finish line, we had a Dairy Queen cone to celebrate. It tasted glorious!
More marathons, theatre performances and dates came and went and all the while we ate ice cream. Somewhere along the way we got engaged and began to plan our wedding. We knew we wanted to have ice cream on our wedding day, so we decided to do what my parents did 25 years ago on their wedding day: stop at a Dairy Queen store between the ceremony and reception! So we informed our limo driver about our plan and told our wedding party to bring a few dollars for a DQ® stop!
The day of the wedding arrived and everything went perfectly. Following the ceremony, we, along with our wedding party, got into our limo and rode to a DQ store. We drew a few eyes our way, but we were all so excited about getting ice cream that we hardly noticed. We didn’t wait long to start enjoying it. The cones were the only thing we both ate all day long – the nerves of getting married diminished our appetite, but not our craving for ice cream! We posed for pictures as we ate, even linking arms to eat our treats! Once everyone had their treats, we made our way outdoors to enjoy continue eating. In the evening sun, we talked and ate with our friends. Our side trip was full of laughs and time to simply enjoy being with our closest friends as we began our new life as husband and wife.
Following our DQ stop, we made our way to the reception to join the rest of our guests. The day continued to flow beautifully and we celebrated with our family and friends late into the evening. Now following the wedding, our pictures get many comments… but our DQ pictures bring the most smiles and laughs. Those pictures capture what we truly love: each other… and ice cream.
Thank you Karen and Matt for sharing your story with us! Check out the photos from their wedding:
Karen’s parents enjoying a DQ Treat!
Karen and Matt enjoying DQ Treats!
The Wedding Party posing with their DQ Treats!
Comments
No! Every one is stealing my rhythm…! One day, this will be my plan.
No worries, we won’t tell anyone if you do the same thing!
Love it! What a great story. And a great picture of your mom and dad, too!
My husband owns two DQs in Maine. He actually proposed to me on the reader board and the local paper caught wind of it, running a front page story. It also happened to be Valentine’s Day. We, too, had DQ ice cream cake at our wedding, along with traditional wedding cake, beautifully decorated by his cake decorator at the store. Not one to leave well enough alone, he’s also used the DQ reader board to announce the births of our two children. Great family memories!
I’m Karen’s Dad … and the groom in the photo from 26 years ago. Karen and Matt are maintaining a family tradition!
Lisa, thank you so much for sharing your story!
Rich, we at Dairy Queen love the family tradition you started!
That is awesome! If I had DQ close by on my wedding day, we would have done the same thing…
Great story, thanks for sharing.
My husband and I also stopped at DQ between our ceremony and reception on July 1, 2005. We have the exact same picture of us linking arms to take a bite of our cones!
We celebrated 4 years together yesterday with another DQ treat!
Thanks for sharing this story!
Would love to see the pictures!!! Please feel free to send them to blog@idq.com.
So… what about having DQ as my wedding cake — serving it to all guests? has it been done?
Hi, Allison! It has been done. You will want to connect with your local Dairy Queen restaurant to see if they are able to accommodate your request for a wedding cake.
Congratulations on your engagement!
Shoot, if I was getting married, I’d go to Dairy Queen too! It’s delicious! That’s also cool that the couple got some pictures of it!