“Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” ends its second season Wednesday night with the “commitment ceremony” between “Mama June” and “Sugar Bear” — also known as June Shannon and Mike Thompson, parents of 8-year-old Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson.
Fans of the TLC series have been hearing about the ceremony all season, particularly about how Sugar Bear, Honey Boo Boo and sisters Lauryn, Jessica and Anna — known as “Pumpkin,” “Chubbs” and “Chickadee” — would prefer the couple get married instead of “committing” to each other.
But Shannon, 33, says there’s a reason she prefers a “commitment” over a legal wedding.
“I’ve never been married,” she told The Post. “I’ve never really been close to getting married but I’ve been engaged before.
“It’s just that a lot of people in our family have been married and divorced a couple of times and for me, seeing that growing up, it wasn’t good,” she said.
“It also costs a lot of money to actually get out of a marriage. We got a piece of paper for doing the commitment ceremony and we don’t have to worry, down the road, if something doesn’t go right and things don’t work out,” she said.
“We’ll be able to leave and get separated without any nasty court battles that a lot of marriages go through.”
While photos of the commitment ceremony were made public when the event was held in May in McIntyre, Ga. — home of Shannon, et al. — viewers have only been teased with snippets of what they’ll finally see for themselves in Wednesday’s season finale.
“It was nice. At the end of the day, I didn’t think it was going to come together,” said Shannon, who wore a battle fatigues-inspired wedding dress.
(Sugar Bear and his groomsmen were similarly adorned, with battle-fatigue pants matching Shannon’s dress.)
“Everything that could go wrong did go wrong in the last couple of days before the ceremony,” Shannon said.
“It was one thing after another. It was raining and stuff like that the day before. It was just awful.”
Shannon, though, is relieved that a mystery ailment plaguing Sugar Bear — who underwent tests at the Mayo Clinic in Florida in July — has been diagnosed as something from which he eventually will recover. (She wouldn’t say just what that diagnosis — but expect to see that news to be shared on “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” next season.)
“He’s feeling pretty good, and now we can get him on the road back to going back to work,” Shannon said of Sugar Bear, who works in a chalk mine.
“It wasn’t life-threatening, so that’s a good thing,” she said. “It’s just something that took a long while to figure out.”