MOUNT PLEASANT, MI -- Where have you imagined yourself getting married? On a tropical island? At your family's cottage? Or perhaps an expensive wedding venue? A wedding destination for a Mid-Michigan couple that started off as a joke, became their dream location.

Trish and Nick Myers got married on Sunday, Oct. 1, at Art Van in the main showroom floor area in Mount Pleasant.

"I wasn't sure they were serious at first and thought it was a joke, but then, when they made it serious, I wanted to make sure we could make it happen" owner Taylor Lee said.

The two lovebirds who are both furniture consultants met because of their affiliation with the company.

Trish Meyers, who works at the Mount Pleasant privately owned store has been working there for a little over a year and Nick Myers has been working at a corporate store in Bay City for three years.

They crossed paths when Trish Meyers was in training for her job and Nick Meyers offered to help her with sales tricks and tips, but little did she know, he had a plan to sell her on their first date.

"When we first met and we were dating and a few months into it, we both were doing really well at work. And Nick was joking around and said 'We could be the Art Van couple and we could have Art Van colors and get married' and of course he's joking and very sarcastic," Trish Myers said.

At the time, she said, the thought of having Art Van colors, which are red, black and white was not how she imagined her wedding.

But soon after the couple began to plan and price venues, the idea of getting married at Art Van became more of solid plan and no longer a joke. Myers said the two also considered getting married at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, where a shooting massacre took place on their wedding day.

"I don't really like to talk about it because something kept us local. But I had a wedding planner and everything out in Vegas," Myers said.

She said she still has chills thinking about how they almost got married there.

Leading up to the wedding, Trish Meyers said word had got around that she and Nick Meyers were going to get married in the store and people would bring it up in conversation.

"They were like you're really getting married inside Art Van?" Myers said.

She said she would reply "yes" and invite people to come watch it.

The day of the wedding, 50 to 60 family members and friends of the Myers piled into the store to watch the couple wed at their unique wedding destination.

Guests sat on sectionals, chairs, sofas and, of course, love seats and watched as Trish walked down the store aisle to meet her groom.

There was even music, and a backdrop that the bride made and other decorations.

Lee said "Everybody helped out and volunteered to make sure she had an aisle she could go down and it was great," Lee said.

The wedding took place during business hours and while some shoppers found themselves confused and right in the middle of the ceremony, the couple said they felt right at home.

"I think it was gorgeous, just the way I expected it to be, probably better. Casual," Nick Myers said.

Following the wedding, the reception took place at Centennial Hall in Mount Pleasant.

The couple has planned to visit Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the Uppr Peninsula for their honeymoon.