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14 Years and 10 Kids Later, Engaged Couple Gets Hitched
She didn’t want to be pregnant in her wedding gown. Which is why it took Rachael Savory and Jay Wong fourteen years until they could tie the knot.
In the meantime, she got pregnant a total of NINE times, resulting in ten kids!
Their love story isn’t any stranger than the rest of ours – they got engaged, and Rachael ended up accidentally pregnant with twins before they had the chance to wed. So they rescheduled the wedding . . . only to have Rachael get pregnant again . . . and again . . . and again.
All told, they have ten kids ages twenty-two months to fourteen. It was after the last that Jay finally had a vasectomy, and they told the Daily Mail that they spent two more years trying to figure out how to swing a wedding on the tight budget of such a big family. It gave Rachael extra time to lose the baby weight, and in June, they got married with their kids acting as the wedding party.
Overall, a pretty happy story – two parents who love their impossibly adorable kids.
But I’ve got to say I’m a little surprised – not that they remained unwed but the reason they opted to put it all off.
I know plenty of engaged couples who threw together a quickie wedding while pregnant . . . then went back and redid everything in a bigger way after-the-fact. Some didn’t even bother with the second wedding – they were legally married, after all, and that mattered more than the pictures. I tend to think the “wanting to be married” part is a lot more important than the latter – and I say that as a wedding photographer!
If getting married is important to you (it’s not to everyone, of course, many parents are fine remaining unwed), should it matter how you look in the dress?
Image: Daily Mail
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7 Comments
Carly commented on Aug 28 09 at 10:42 amwow, have they never heard of condoms and birth control pills?? after the twins that would be my top priority!
Lucky commented on Aug 28 09 at 5:33 pmMaybe they just like kids.
Trace commented on Aug 28 09 at 6:23 pmCarly…. I take offense to your comment. Not every family is content with just one or two children. And as long as they are not abusing the state aid now, why should it matter to anyone how many children they have? They are obviously a beautiful family, and if they are happy, then who are we to judge….
Sue commented on Aug 29 09 at 1:55 pmMy question is why even get married a child is a bigger commitment together than a marriage will ever be. I am sure they are happy they look like a lovely family. If they ahve stuck together all this time then there is nothing to break them apart. I agree small or large family what different does it make as long as they are able to provide for their kids. http://www.truuconfessions.com has a lot of opinions thrown around about this very subject.
Kayt commented on May 18 10 at 6:04 pmI tend to have the same guy reaction as Carly. I have no problem with big families, or people who have kids out of wedlock. However, if it mattered so much to them to set a wedding date, why not use some birth control, get married, and then get to building a big family? I personally don’t care, but it’s just a bit odd to me. I mean, I had been planning on getting married, but then I got pregnant. It was important to me to be married when I had my baby, especially because I’d already purchased my wedding dress. We pushed the date up a few months so I still fit in my dress, and had the modest affair we’d been planning.
Kayt commented on May 18 10 at 6:05 pmOops, make that ‘gut’ instead of ‘guy’. Sorry.
Jay commented on Jan 02 12 at 6:44 pmSeems odd to me that they marry at all – you have kids, that’s a bigger commitment than marriage!
I’ll not marry unless I win the Lotto as even a cheap wedding is expensive and I feel the money is better spent on having kids…thus my second point; if your budget was that tight, and with such a big family, couldn’t the money have been put to better use?
I’d say it’s not that birth control wasn’t a thought or an option, or that they kept waiting till she wasn’t pregnant…they just happened to wait a while, possibly for a few reasons or just didn’t get round to it…but this makes a better story.
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