We’re in the trenches of wedding season now and most couples are planning and designing their last minute items. Seating charts, favors, place cards and a nicely decorated box to hold cards generously given by guests. There is a movement towards making these boxes no ordinary boxes- couples know that cards not attached to a […]
I was blessed to have Ed walk into my life in 1998, when we were both just kids really. He caught my eye and as I later found out, we were actually both *stalking* each other at the time. I would ‘stop by’ where he worked and he would do the same…pretending we were there […]
I met Ty almost 3 years ago on a night out with friends. Pretty quickly after we went on a few dates I knew he was someone special. He was very respectful of me and was always a gentleman. He genuinely cared and was interested in making my day to day life better right from […]
(Photo credit: Christy D. Swanberg Photography) I met Oscar over 5 years ago when I was living in La Paz, Bolivia volunteering with a Canadian non-profit organization. He was very shy at first so I asked him to help me improve my Spanish and it worked! We were inseparable for the remaining month of my […]
I’ve always heard that when you meet “the one” you’ll know it. It’s true. When I met my husband I knew that, even despite some pretty monumental hurdles, that he was the one I would spend the rest of my life with. Tom married me and my three children over 22 years ago and we’ve […]
I knew Ty was the guy I was going to marry when after just a couple of weeks of dating, he demonstrated just what kind of a guy he is. We lived in Laramie, Wyoming and had just had a crazy winter snow storm. My Trans Am was completely buried in a snow bank and […]
Seven years of marriage and still no way out. When we argue, we make up without trying to ‘WIN’ the argument so I can’t leave on that account. When I mess up I say I’m sorry and when she makes a mistake she is quick to apologize so I can’t hold that against her. When […]
When we were married we had no idea how quickly our selfishness would seek to assert itself. When this started to happen it was easy to think we might have chosen the wrong person, or that we should have stayed single. Our marriage put a huge mirror in front of each of us and then proceeded to reflect back […]
Marriage is a team effort. It’s you and your spouse together against this crazy world of pressures and changes. It’s not ‘you against me’, because the two of you are an ‘us’. What happens to one of you, happens to both of you. Remember that your spouse is your best friend and advocate, not your […]
Respect each other’s strengths and accept each other’s weaknesses. In the years that my husband and I have been married I have often had to remind myself of this idea. When I met my husband twenty-eight years ago, I immediately found myself attracted to this fun- loving, life-of-the-party person. I fell in love with his […]
