Burger King offers to bankroll out Burger and King Wedding

Burger King will pay the wedding expenses for a young Illinois couple named Joel Burger and Ashley King, whose children will carry forward in their last names the ‘lineage’ of the multinational fast-food chain, media reported.

Burger, 24, and King, 23, accepted the offer of the Miami-based fast-food chain to sponsor their wedding on July 17 in Jacksonville, Illinois, according to Efe news agency.

The couple, have known each other since high school, who have lived their entire life in the village of New Berlin, Spirngfield, about1,000 inhabitants, got a surprise Skype call on Monday from the Burge Kings, New York office.

The company spokesman on the Skype call offered to pay their wedding expenses and buy gifts for the occasion after learning that their engagement has been announced with a photo of the couple that included the restaurant chain’s logo.

‘When we heard about the happy, Burger-King couple, we felt an overwhelming urge to celebrate their upcoming marriage,’ the Burger King spokesman said. ‘On so many levels it felt like fate; they found each other and their story found us.’