EUERKA, MO (KHQA/CNN) – More than a dozen couples celebrated Friday Oct. 13, by vowing to stay together until death do they part. A Missouri theme park hosted a mass horror-themed wedding for people whose love for each other matches their love of the macabre.
"She entered us in a contest to get married here at Six Flags and I didn't know about it," said newlywed George Johnson. Shelby Waid and George Johnson are one of the many couples who added a spooky twist to tying the knot.
"I am a big Halloween fan and Nightmare before Christmas is one of my favorites. So Jack and Sally just kind of seemed to fit,” said newlywed Shelby Waid.
The couples came to Six Flags St. Louis for a Hallowedding scaremony. Three of those couples were from the tri-state area, two from Quincy and one from Hannibal. "We were pretty shocked actually to see somebody else from there. I mean, 1,700 people entered for this and we won,” said newlywed Pam Rayhart.
"We have done Halloweddings before but it’s been a while since we had done one. But when we found out we were going to have a Friday the 13th during Fright Fest we thought, ‘Oh what fun thing could we do?’ And we thought you know what, we'll marry 13 couples why not?" said Elizabeth Gotway of Six Flags.
Complete with ghastly make over and their best Halloween wedding attire, it was almost as easy as saying 'I boo.’
"We've literally had to do nothing other than go to the courthouse and get our marriage license Wednesday and then show up here,” Rayhart said.
Although it's been several years since Six Flags hosted a Hallowedding, for some it feels like yesterday.
"She kind of knew that we got married down here in 2002 and decided it would be something cool to share between all of us. This is where we started at so we saw, like she said, we saw the contest online and figured you know, it would be just kind a cool thing to do, just kind of reminisce how we started,” said participant Jason Heck.
And after the reception, the couples got to take their first coaster ride as a happily haunted couple. “It's going to be great, we all get to have this experience together," Shelby Waid said.
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