There was not a dry eye in the lawn and garden section of the Silsbee Walmart on Monday night.
For Connie, a sales associate at the Silsbee Walmart for 13 years, she could think of no better place to wed the love of her life than amid the bargains of her favorite big box retailer.
"I just love Walmart," Connie said. "And hey, they already had all the flowers."
Monday night, as a dozen of Day's friends, family and fellow Walmart associates looked on, Connie and David Day wed in a brief ceremony in the aisle between the Miracle Grow potting soil and shelves of plastic bird baths.
"I think it's really sweet," said Debbie LeBlanc, one of Connie's coworkers. She attended the wedding wearing her WalMart photo department smock and wiped tears from her eyes as she watched the couple wed. "They deserve this. She deserves some happiness, she really does."
Connie and David married 30 years ago and had two daughters but the pair divorced after about four years.
The story of how the two came together again is not the happiest of tales.
On May 19, 2008, the couple’s 25-year-old daughter Coty was shot and killed in her Beaumont Old Town apartment. One man was charged with her murder.
Devastated by their daughter’s murder, Connie and David looked to one another for comfort.
“That kind of brought us back together,” Connie said. “We were there for each other.”
Now, almost two years later, Connie and David bent over a row of shopping carts to sign their second marriage certificate.
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