Generally speaking, if the average man suggested to his fiancée that they get married at Buc-ee’s, there’s a good chance that would be the end of the relationship. In the galaxy of possible wedding venues that include beaches and hotel ballrooms and parks, a gas station, even a big one, is a pretty tough sell.
So when Bob Hespen told fiancée Melanie Curtis they should tie the knot at the beaver-themed travel center in Sevierville, Tenn., it was just a joke, he claimed. But it turned into a reality. According to WATE in Knoxville, Tenn., the couple got married Sunday before onlookers and God and the Bucky the Beaver statue in the Sevierville gas station’s parking lot.
“I proposed it as a joke,” Hespen told WATE. “And I loved it,” Curtis said. “This was just very on-brand for us.”…