“Ultimately, we wanted the wedding to be a reflection of our dynamic together and not take anything too seriously,” Kate Palumbo and Andi Larocca told CTV News Toronto.
The idea came from their friend and officiant Kaleb Robertson who always wanted to host a wedding ceremony at Dufferin Mall.
“The mall that has it all,” Palumbo said, giving a nod to a tag phrase often associated with the West Side mall.
The couple got married on Tuesday and used the mall’s photo booth as a wedding photographer for the cheap price of $5.
For their wedding cake, they fed each other a cinnamon roll and bought a second one, which they iced to celebrate their first anniversary.
While their wedding ceremony was taking place, a small audience formed around them. Among them, a group of teenagers clapped.
“For the most part, people were pretty indifferent,” Larocca said.
The couple lives in Little Italy and said the Dufferin Mall is a central place in their lives. Inevitably soon, they said they would visit the facility and pass by their wedding venue.
“I guess we’ll always have a special moment when we go through Cinnabon,” Larocca said.
“If we smell Cinnabon, we’ll remember how much we love each other,” Palumbo added.
