After spending just $532 on her wedding, “Found” actress Shanola Hampton has only one regret

After spending lower than $600 on her Las Vegas wedding to sportscaster Daren Dukes 24 years ago, actress Shanola Hampton has only one regret.

The 47-year-old ‘Found’ actress recalls her 2000 Sin City wedding with ‘Dallas cowboy show” commentator, 51, who in an interview for the magazine “supposedly” cost her only $532 People Magazine.

“Honey, we got married at the Circus Circus Hotel in Las Vegas,” Hampton told the publication, adding that the couple eloped on the storied hotel’s Fountain Chapel.

“And no one even knew we were there,” she continued. “It was this perfect little thing that just the two of us did.”

Hampton and Dukes were capable of keep costs down on their big day by not inviting guests, finding old clothes for the ceremony and never spending money on extras like hair and makeup. Instead, Hampton stayed on trend amongst many black women within the late ’90s and early 2000s by curling her hair like Erykah Badu.

After the intimate ceremony, the newlyweds went to a buffet after which went to a strip club. When it was all said and done, she said her only regret was that “we were too broke at the time to buy the package that included the videotape because I remember him saying the most beautiful vows to me and it was really funny.” to observe them back.

She continued, “Oh man, if only we could see what it would be like.”

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They managed to take photos.

“Oh, there are photos, but you can see him saying his vows to me and I’m just looking at them like an idiot,” Hampton said jokingly, adding, “I just say, ‘I love you.'”

The two have since returned to the scene. They recently took their two children, daughter Cai MyAnna (10) and son Daren OC (8), to Fountain Chapel during a visit to the famous Nevada city.

Hampton noted that she also remembered what the minister told them before their wedding.

He said, “It doesn’t change the person across from you.” If you think that that suddenly you take a look at someone and that marriage will turn them into another person, then that is not what marriage is about and that is not what it’s for. So take a look at the person you might be marrying, because that’s who they’re. This was very big news for us,” says Hampton.

“I still think it was a very good lesson,” he continues. “Yes, you learn, grow and evolve. But you do not change one another by marrying.”

In the caption of a recent anniversary tribute post on the location Instagram featuring a photograph of the 2 people hugging, Hampton wrote: “I like seeing the world with you and sharing this amazing life together! We know all those on the opposite side who had a hand on this relationship! Thank you!”