--- title: Canadian Couple Celebrates Wedding With 8-Ft.-Tall Potato description: A Canadian couple pulled off a spud-tacular wedding with the help of a special guest — an 8-ft.-tall potato named Tate the Tater canonical: https://time.com/4503706/canada-wedding-potato/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-22T00:27:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:51.931Z og:title: A Canadian Couple Invited an 8-Ft.-Tall Potato to Their Wedding og:description: It was Tate the Tater's first wedding og:url: https://time.com/4503706/canada-wedding-potato/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Canadian Couple Invited an 8-Ft.-Tall Potato to Their Wedding twitter:description: It was Tate the Tater's first wedding twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A Canadian Couple Invited an 8-Ft.-Tall Potato to Their Wedding by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 22, 2016 12:27 AM UTC by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 22, 2016 12:27 AM UTC A Canadian couple pulled off a spud-tacular wedding with the help of a special guest — an 8-ft.-tall potato named Tate the Tater. Tate the Tater, the industry mascot for the Prince Edward Island Potato Board, attended his first wedding at the request of the bride and groom, Amy and Matthew Ramsay, both 27\. The couple lives in Prince Edward Island and were married on a potato farm owned by the Potato Board on Aug. 27. Matthew Ramsay, a potato farmer, [told the CBC](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-potato-wedding-tate-tater-1.3770844) he thought it “would just be fitting if Tate made an appearance.” He said Amy thought it would be good entertainment for the kids in attendance. “It would take the lull out of the reception when people are trying to eat and there wasn’t any speeches going on,” he said. “She thought it’d be a great idea.” The couple was right — Tate proved a hit at the wedding, and posed in several photos with guests. Canadian Couple Celebrates Wedding With 8-Ft.-Tall Potato ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4503706/canada-wedding-potato/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4503706/canada-wedding-potato/"},"headline":"A Canadian Couple Invited an 8-Ft.-Tall Potato to Their Wedding","datePublished":"2016-09-22T00:27:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:51.931Z","description":"It was Tate the Tater's first wedding","url":"https://time.com/4503706/canada-wedding-potato/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Canada"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4503706/canada-wedding-potato/","name":"A Canadian Couple Invited an 8-Ft.-Tall Potato to Their Wedding"}}]}] ```