Wow, has it really been seven years since Colin and I were married??? It feels like such a short time but also like forever (in a good way). I’ve loved living up here in the Ottawa Valley. I’m a country girl at heart and Bowmanville is getting so ‘city’.
You might be wondering how on earth Colin and I met? Well, we actually met online. I was bored at work (in January) and tired of being the only one working while everyone else took off for ‘smoke breaks’. A Lava Life ad had been popping up on my computer screen for a while so I filled out a profile. It was only partly done and I had no picture (didn’t know how). Next thing I knew I had gotten a ‘smile’ from Colin (it’s what you send the person you’re interested in). It turns out Colin had been online for a year looking for someone and was doing one last search. He made the criteria very specific and my profile came up. The rest is history, we talked on the phone, met in person and were engaged March first and married in August.
We were married in 2003. You might remember that was the year of the huge blackout in Canada and the States. That was the week before the wedding. I was sewing on my dress when the power went out. Luckily, we are on the same hydro line as Base Petawawa so our power went down but not out. Also, I was done all the machine work on my dress and had not much left to do.
It was so hot leading up to the wedding. Really hot, even for August in Ontario. It was so hot that Colin took off his shirt while cutting out my veil. Colin didn’t see my dress as I was making it, but I never could have cut out a proper circle of veiling material without my ingenious Sweetie. I forget what the tubing was usually used for, but it worked perfectly for making a circle.
We were lucky, the Thursday before the wedding we had a really good thunderstorm. It washed all the heat and humidity out of the air and made Saturday such a beautiful day. Mom said she was cool, which meant the temperature was perfect 🙂
Here’s my sister and me at the hairdresser’s. It’s one of the few pictures I have of my sister blonde. She’s always changing the colour of her hair, so I requested blonde for the wedding. I think she looks better that way. You see that smile plastered on my face? It was there all day long, I had a sore face at the end of the day 🙂 🙂 🙂
Pictures aren’t allowed during the service, so this one was taken during the lighting of the Unity candle. We were given a very beautiful candle as an engagement gift. It has a lovely verse too. This picture makes it look like we had a large wedding. Really we only invited about 90 people and about 75 showed up. We only invited family aunts and uncles and a few friends or else the numbers would have gotten out of hand. Any one who saw “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” will have an idea of what could have happened (without the ethnic jokes).
This is my godfather walking me down the aisle. Since Grandpa is no longer with us, Uncle Pius did the honours. I didn’t want to choose between my real uncles. Besides Uncle Pius was very pleased. I surprised Colin by showing up on time. They hadn’t been paying attention at the front of the church 🙂
This is our wedding party. I made all the dresses. My sister was maid of honour. Colin’s niece Brittany was flower girl, she was only 5 1/2. Colin’s best man was his best friend from college, Keith. Our getting married and being happy actually got Keith to go on Lavalife too and now he’s happily married with a little girl and little boy.
This is one of my favourite pictures from the album. We didn’t have a wild and crazy reception. In fact it was dry, as neither family drinks and I hate being around people who are drunk. My friend Tom was our DJ and once he figured out to play mostly old country a few people danced. This was our first dance -Honeydrippers “Sea of Love”. It was such a wild and crazy reception that we were cleaned up and heading to the hotel by 11.
Then we headed off for Haliburton for a wonderful week-long honeymoon. It was Colin’s first real vacation in years. It was so good to get away from the farm and have nothing to worry about. We had such a wonderful time.
Happy Anniversary My Love!!! Seven years down, a life time more to enjoy.
What a lovely wedding, you look beautiful!! Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed the pictures very much.
Happy 7th Anniversary to you both!
Niki
Thanks Niki. It’s so hard to believe we’ve been married 7 years already. Where does the time go??
Happy anniversary!!! Time sure does fly! You have a great “how we met story”; just shows when we move inches God will move miles…. Have a wonderful day!
Congratulations. My husband and I met on-line through match.com and were married within 6 months of meeting each other on-line! A second marriage for both of us, he was a widower and I was a divorcee who had previously been married for over 22 years and had spent the last 10 years on my own. I know of several other Christian couples who met through the internet.
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