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Joel Burger and Ashley King, of Springfield, Ill., have decided to get married. And it seems they were destined to be Burger-King.

They have known each other since kindergarten, and have been teased about their last names since the fifth grade, according to The State Journal-Register.

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They’ve come to embrace the joke, and took their engagement photo in front of a Burger King sign.

They then contacted Burger King about getting drink cosies with the Burger King crest on one side for their wedding. Not one to miss a marketing opportunity, the hamburger chain went well beyond that, offering to pay for the wedding entirely.

“When we heard about the happy Burger-King couple, we felt an overwhelming urge to celebrate their upcoming marriage. On so many levels, it felt like fate: they found each other and their story found us,” Dara Schopp, spokesperson for Burger King wrote in an email. “We hope we swept them off their feet. All we ask in return is that they live happily ever after.”

The Burger-King wedding will be in nearby Jacksonville on July 17.

It won’t be the first fast-food wedding.

In 2010, Paul and Caragh Brooks, also of Illinois, were married in a Taco Bell.

In 2013, Charlie and Natalie Aalders, from Nova Scotia, were married in a Tim Hortons, even though neither of them liked coffee. The couple met online, and had had their first date in the Tim Hortons in which they were eventually wed.