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Bride and groom spark online debate after showing up in jeans and plaid shirt during wedding ceremony

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Updated 19:39 5 Mar 2025 GMTPublished 19:37 5 Mar 2025 GMT

Bride and groom spark online debate after showing up in jeans and plaid shirt during wedding ceremony

Amie and Hunter weren't down to fork out a fortune on a wedding dress and fancy suit

Joe Harker

Joe Harker

A bride claims she lost friends and family because she wore jeans and a plaid shirt to her wedding instead of the traditional (and expensive) dress.

22-year-old Amie Barron tied the knot with new husband Hunter, 24, on 26 January and the pair wore matching outfits for their wedding in at a room in a West Virginia public library.

The couple wanted to keep costs low and only spent around $1,000 (£775) on the ceremony, with $300 of that going on new pairs of cowboy boots for Amie and Hunter to wear to the wedding. Take a look:

Another $480 went on a photographer, while the bride did her own hair and makeup along with sorting out the music and food to save on other expenses.

There were 20 guests in attendance, while a boxer dog named Silas was the ring bearer, and the couple reckon they saved about $10,000 (£7,750) on the whole shebang so they can spend money on a two-week honeymoon in July.

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Amie said she 'wouldn't change it for the world', but faced some criticism from people who said she was 'crazy' and called her wedding 'ugly'.

The couple tied the knot in January, and didn't spend a fortune on the big day (Kennedy)
The couple tied the knot in January, and didn't spend a fortune on the big day (Kennedy)

She said: "I've always known I never wanted a big wedding. I think some people do want that but I knew right away that wasn't me.

"Everybody told me while we were planning that I would regret it so it was very controversial for people who heard what we were doing that didn't really support us.

"It's been a struggle especially after the wedding. We've got a lot of mean messages and posts on social media and from people who weren't that supportive of it that we've had to cut out of our life.

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"I was very upset, it drained us for a while and we were trying to figure out how to continue life with all of the hate we were getting. We sat down and talked about how we weren't going to let it affect our marriage as newlyweds and we stopped talking to them."

They had a dog bear the rings for them (Kennedy)
They had a dog bear the rings for them (Kennedy)

The bride said she did go dress shopping but when she saw that some of them were as expensive as $3,000 (£2,300) she thought it was 'insane' to spend that much and just wore her normal clothes.

She said that she and her husband had a 'great time' at the wedding, and that he was initially supposed to also be wearing a cowboy hat but left it at home.

Some commenters were not very approving of the wedding, with those against it declaring 'this wedding is trash' and calling it 'ugly'.

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However, others were more positive about it and said that a wedding should be a 'special party' and not the most expensive thing you could imagine.

Someone else said they found 'budget' weddings to be 'significantly sweeter', while others praised them for not spending 'so much unnecessary money'.

Featured Image Credit: Kennedy

Topics: Weddings, US News, Dogs

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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