Fishburne: This is really a beautiful pamphlet from the mid-1950s--"The Wedding of Your Dreams."

Avila: Yes.

Fishburne: And it takes you through the entire wedding planning process, from flowers to bridal attire to celebration.

Avila: I mean, this is essentially an advertisement advertising the services of weddings and a presentation of what an ideal wedding would be within the Forest Lawn experience.

Fishburne: One of the things, you know, that set Forest Lawn apart early on was the idea of everything all in one place, having our own flower shop, our own mortuary.

Avila: It's also important to think of this as a very modern, very 20th-century model of business efficiency-- the consolidation of services and businesses within one enterprise.

Masters, voice-over: In fact, thousands of couples have wed at Forest Lawn over the decades.

Eric and I just had to learn why so many chose to exchange their vows at a cemetery.

So we met up with Sandra Zaldana and Joe Sampson, who married at Forest Lawn's Church of the Recessional in 2022 and just happen to be Forest Lawn employees.

Masters: What made you get married at a cemetery?

Zaldana: Ha ha ha!

Masters: Have you been asked that question?

Zaldana: So, we both work here, and I thought it would be very, very meaningful.

This church has a lot of history, and it's absolutely beautiful.

I love how it's architecturally been designed, also meaning to Joe because he's English and Scottish.

That was important to me to honor part of his background.

I told Joseph that we will be here until death do us apart and beyond, because we have property at Forest Lawn.

I'm not the only one that has chosen to get married at Forest Lawn.

We have had over 70,000 weddings.

Masters: It's a huge tradition.

It goes way back.

Ronald Reagan got married here.

Regis Philbin got married here.

Avila: But also, many couples get married at churches that have cemeteries next to them.

So, is this that different than that?

Masters: Every church in Europe, though, right, will have a graveyard next to it.

Avila: Exactly.

Yeah, exactly.

So, if people ask those weird questions, you can say, "Well, how many people get married in churches next to graveyards all the time?"

Sampson: Where were you, Eric?

We needed you then.

[Laughter]