Southern Weddings

those signs are BEAUTIFUL!!!

Vance and I met the good old fashion Southern way, in a bar! We had gone out that night with mutual friends and hit it off from the very start. Unfortunately I happened to be in a relationship at the time. Lucky for me, he thought I was worth the wait. A year and a half later I realized he was where I belonged, two years later he popped the question and three years later we’re saying I do. I’m just as giddy as the very first night we met. :)

oh my, there could not be a more beautiful piece of art on wood! i can already imagine the many ways i could use Chocolate Butterbean at our wedding. blake and my love story began at a piano recital as children. however, as far as we can recall, sixth grade was the beginning of our relationship. blake developed a huge crush on me when we met in sixth grade. after a year of pining, i gave in and agreed to "go out with him". although the relationship had monumental consequences – my first kiss was blake – our long middle school courtship ended after a few months. we remained best of friends throughout high school and college. it was on a road trip for blake’s final collegiate soccer game that i realized my feelings for him had never faded. finally with a bit of courage from our friends, i revealed my crush that had been hiding for years. and now we are getting married.

My SO and I met just before our sophomore year of college as we were moving into neighboring apartments. We became fast friends, harboring mutual crushes. Two and a half years later, when we ran into each other on campus for the zillionth time, he actually followed up and asked me out on a date that night. We’ve never looked back. <3p.s. I totally want to win one of these, they’re beautiful!!

Depending on who we’re telling, we met at a bar OR we met at a church function. It was Catholic Young Adult Night at the bar. I was there with my friend and her now husband, who always managed to get into heated arguments in public. He was there with his friends who had coupled off. He came over and asked if he could play darts with us to "get away from couple hell." I said "sure, but you’re joining couple hell over here."We went out the following week and have been together ever since. We’re getting married May 2010 and I could not be happier about spending the rest of my life with him.

I met my absolutely wonderful and charming significant other on a blind date in high school. We were set-up miraculously by a friend for my winter formal. It was honestly a weird coincident considering we knew each other prior through our friend but never even thought of the other at all. We instantly hit it off that evening and our relationship soon enough blossomed and grew to where we are today. Six years later we are still blessed and thankful for that one moment and possibly best decision and risk that I have made so far in my life.

My fiance is a photographer, and when we met, he was finishing his degree. I was auditioning for a dance show at school, and he came to scout dancers for a photo series he was working on. We worked together a few times me usually jumping around in front of him and his camera, and about a month or two later, it clicked, and we saw each other in a different light.I ended up going to a school that wasn’t my first choice (so I could meet him), I went to an audition even though performing arts isn’t my major, and it was lucky that I even saw the flyer (so I could meet him), and I unknowingly sat in front of him at church one night after winter break (so I could meet him). Things DO happen for a reason. We are completely imperfect together, but even more so apart.These signs are adorable and would be perfect for our laid-back affair next summer! Please pick us!

I was a freshman at Converse College and had just gone through a big breakup; so I was down in the dumps on Valentine’s Day. My good friend Meredith decided that we needed to get out and have fun instead of drowning in our single sorrows. We went to a Valentine’s party at Wofford College and were having such a great time! Meredith was off talking to someone, and a boy (looking very out of place) wearing a high school letterman’s jacket caught my eye. I made my way through the crowd to say hello. Turns out, he was a high school senior from up north and was on a recruiting visit to play football at Wofford. He was such a cutie; I was instantly smitten! We talked for a little while, but the night was coming to an end and we parted ways without exchanging information. (dumb!) I forgot his name before we even left. Over the next few months, I bugged Meredith constantly asking, “Remember that cute high school boy at the party? I wish I knew his name! Do you think he’ll come to Wofford??” I never thought I would see him again.One night, we were at the same fraternity house at Wofford that hosted the Valentine’s party the previous semester. I was sitting on the back porch talking to some friends, and “high school boy” walked in the back door. I have never been so surprised in my entire life. He instantly recognized me and came over to where I was. We talked the whole night and shared stories about how we had both been thinking about each other since his recruiting visit and wondering if we would see each other again. We hung out that night, and the rest is history!

We met on the bus, when I was in 7th grade. He is 3 years older than me, and he lived right up the road. We met because the middle school and high school share a bus. Gregg and I didn’t really talk until I was in 9th grade, but he remembers having a crush on me & specifically remembers a fake tattoo I had on my leg when I was 12 and I would prop my legs up on the seat in front of me on the bus. When I started high school, he was a senior, and we started talking because he knew my ex-boyfriend. After the first day of talking, we bonded and became best friends. We always dated other people, and now he says he had a huge crush on me back then. I somehow knew we would end up together, because I have a diary entry where I wrote about how we would end up being old together. We both moved to different cities after high school, but ended back at our parent’s houses, which were very close. Things clicked when I was 20-21 and I realized he was the person I had been searching for all along. We’ve been together for 9 years now, and it is time to get married! I am marrying my best friend, and things couldn’t be better!

As members of the same college band, it was inevitable that our paths would eventually cross. Lucky for us, it turned out to be sooner when I went out after a concert with some of David’s fraternity brothers. Sitting in a booth with four of his brothers at Applebees, I kept having to turn around so that someone else was included in the conversation at our table. Turns out it was David. In his words… "I had to stay involved in that table’s conversation, because I wanted to know everything I could about you."Needless to say, his brothers kept finding excuses to get us near each other, and 5 of them will be standing at the altar to witness our marriage!

My boyfriend and I have been together since high school. I was friends with a lot of his friends. His senior year in high school, he tore his ACL. I happened to work for a physical therapist. I called him to help set up his appointments for his therapy, he sent flowers to thank me, and it’s history from there. We dated long distance all through college and finally live in the same state again.

I had been looking for a Church to attend for awhile and one of my coworker had been telling be about her Church, then she told me about the new cute guy going there! I told her I was going for a different guy ( ya know?! God ) but the Lord blessed me with both his love and of that cute guy!! Happily getting married in April :)

I met my fiance, Corian, in August 2003 at the trashy club – Scandals, perfect name, right?! – near Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. My best friend and I were dancing when she saw a group of guys she knew that had graduated a few years earlier. She grabbed her friend, Rod, and told me to "entertain" his friend, Corian. Being a good wingman, I danced with him. He said, and I quote, "You keep dancing like that, and I’m going to have to get your number." Cheesy line aside, we’ve been together ever since!We’d love to win the [email protected]

Joel and I first met when introduced by my friend, Jen. Jen was leading a workshop for Joel and during their conversation she discovered that he was single. Jen had tried two unsuccessful matches for me in that past and was leery of going for a third. She finally asked me if I would be interested in meeting him. I was totally open to the idea, and evidently so was Joel. The three of us met for lunch at the Regent Ordinary the following week. I had arrived at the Ordinary early to meet with another student. I had no idea what Joel looked like, but knew that his office was in that building. As I left the Ordinary for quick trip to the restroom, I passed this tall handsome guy and thought to myself, "I wonder if that’s him." Honestly, he was the only fellow of whom I thought that. When I returned, my friend said, "Did you see him?" I replied by letting her know that I didn’t know what he looked like. I was surprised when she nodded at the man I had passed. Of course I took the opportunity over the next half hour to observe his interactions. :-)Finally at lunch, Jen introduced us and I was quickly became impressed with his conversation and presence. By the end of lunch, Joel had indicated that he would enjoy getting together again sometime soon. We went out again the following week.

We were in one of the wackest nightclubs in the world called "Fridays" on the sunshine coast in Queensland, that much we can agree on. From there on we both have our own stories of what happened next. I remember starting a conversation with Emily because I noticed the bone carving she was wearing, which resonated deeply with my kiwi roots. I then proceeded to dazzle her with my extremely competent dancefloor gyrations, probably to Blueboy’s "Remember Me". After she recovered from watching the devastation that are my dance moves, she then made sexy eyes at me. And the rest is history. Quite traditional really.Joe.

I was with a guy for 5 years out of my life. While I was with him, his brother was room-mates with this guy named Daniel. We would go over there every now & then and visit his brother. Well, I would see Daniel around town sometimes. He, too, was in a relationship for 5 years at the time. We met again in college, & began to see each other in the cafeteria at breakfast time. We really enjoyed each others company & talked about how we were both unhappy in our relationships. I was in an abusive relationship & he was in a troubled one. We became best friends, eating breakfast every Tuesday & Thursday morning. One day he told me he had broken up with his ex because I had given him enough courage to do so, and he could’t be in the relationship any longer. After seeing that he was able to do it, I did the same. We then started to spend time together out of school & it progressed into a wonderful relationship & after a year of being together…he proposed!!! We’re getting married March 13 of this year, & ofcourse, it’s a Southern Wedding! With the horse & carriage, mason jars, horseshoes, the whole nine yards! I couldn’t be happier that this is the path I’ve chosen. Daniel has given me the strength to do things WAY beyond my expectations. And THAT is how we met :)

My fiance and I met while swimming at a raft in the middle of a lake in Wisconsin — we’ve set our wedding to take place at a resort on that lake!

My finance & I have know each other since we were little. We have framed picture of us standing beside each other in Nursery School, looking googlied eyed! ha Guess you could say it was love at first sight! We are 28 now and have been together 8 1/2 years. We will finally tie the knot April 24! :)

My fiance, Jamie, and I met about six years ago riding horses at an event in South Dakota. We had such a wonderful time with each other, but I am from Tennessee and he is from Georgia, so we never really expected to see each other again. But, as luck would have it, we kept running into each other a couple of times every year, and every time in South Dakota and South Georgia. Small world I guess. Finally, we ended up running into each other at the right time in our lives and now we are engaged to be married in June! We are so excited! Our wedding and reception is at a stable/bed and breakfast in Oxford, Mississippi and the Chocolate Butterbean sign would be perfect!

My fiance’ and I met at a clothes drive sponsored by a local community service organization. Most people involved in the clothes drive wanted to stand in front of a very popular restaurant in town and solicit donations from the patrons. No one was interested in staying in the back of the care facility to sort and fold the clothes we had collected throughout the day. However, my fiance’ and I decided to do just that and sat for 4 hours talking and folding clothes. No sparks flew…no magical feeling overwhelmed us…we just enjoyed each other’s company. He made me laugh A LOT. We parted ways without exchanging information only to come across each other’s paths a few months later at a Bible study group. And the rest, as they say, is history…

Funny thing is my fiance (Stephan) and I don’t remember when we met!! We know it was 7-8 years ago and we were introduced by mutual friends, however we don’t remember the exact meeting. We flirted for a few years and one night ended up at the same get together (at the insistence of the same friends who introduced us). The get together was at a dude ranch in central Florida and this was where we shared our first kiss! Although we didn’t start dating until a few years later (I lived out of state) we both remember that first kiss. When I saw these custom signs from Chocolate Butterbeans it instantly took me back to the site of our first kiss, which was rustic and original, just like these signs! A custom made sign from Chocolate Butterbeans would make a PERFECT addition to our wedding day!!

My fiance and I met 4 years ago (4 years ago this week, actually!) at an Irish pub in Richmond, VA. I asked him to dance, and the rest is history!! We are getting married 4 months from TODAY :)

"Hey, can you belay me while I climb?". Part of the first conversation my fiance and I had! I used to work at Alabama Outdoors. I didn’t like working upstairs with the clothes so one day I decided to post myself downstairs with all the backpacks, tents, climbing gear and rock wall. Casey and a friend of his came in that afternoon to work out on the climbing wall. They didn’t have to sign any paperwork since they had already been in so I was trying to find some way to talk with him. He had on a shirt that said BSC across his chest, which was where I was currently finishing out that year. So I used the classical guy pick up line on Casey and asked, "Hey have we met before?". For those who don’t know, Birmingham Southern College is a very small private school in Birmingham, so there was at least facial recognition but no dice on the name or ever really meeting before now. That classic line was all I needed though, we hit it off talking about everything under the sun and have been impossible to pull apart ever since. He is truly my best friend. He even brought me back to the first place we met when he proposed, two and a half years later! We are getting married June 19th, 2010 at his parents lake house on Lake Tuscaloosa. It is going to be a small backyard wedding with lots of vintage, rustic details to it (so we hope at least)!

My fiance and I met in London, 2 months before I was to come back to the states. I did warily told him I was only going to be in London for a short amount of time left but he still wanted to keep dating me. After I came back, he came out for a visit during Thanksgiving. Fast forward, after 5 years of bi-continental dating, we are engaged! I can’t wait to get married to my best friend!

We met in Chicago in the fall of 2007. I was on a business trip and met up with Jared after our mutual friend, Jen Blum , said they should meet up for a drink. It wasn’t a set up just a random…"hey, I’ve got this friend who you can get some dinner with while you are on your trip."We first saw each other in the lobby of the Ambassador East Hotel in the Gold Coast section of Chicago. We now refer to this hotel as the ‘Great Gatsby Hotel’ since it had all that sort of art deco charm. I was just ending a long day of a meetings and taking a yoga class before running back to a business dinner party when I met up with Jared in the lobby.It was decided that we should go have a drink at the Signature Room at the top of the Hancock Building. I said that it was the place most people in her meeting recommended since you can see the entire city from the building. I also said that I heard the place was kind of pricey but not to worry because I would just flirt with someone to get some free drinks…which I did! It was just one of those nights — fun and simple. We met people at the bar whom we didn’t know and chatted and also got to know eachother.We had dinner the next night and I kept thinking, this guy is really great — but he lives in Chicago, and I live in New Jersey. We said our good byes and there was no kiss which I later found out was because he wanted to be a gentleman, not a creep — at first I thought the feelings were only on my side. But after I left, he texted me and called me. We started chatting and emailing all the time and even wrote letters (hand written old school letters!!). A month later, he came to visit family in New Jersey and we met up the next time. It was awkward but, I felt like I really knew him. After that we dated for about a year long distance. Then, he proposed and moved to be with me in NJ!! The rest is history.

My fiance and I met while I was completing my MA abroad in London, England, UK.A friend of mine sent me a link to join a group for people who support interracial dating. And I definitely do, so of course I joined. I hadn’t been active on the site really because of being busy with university. But one day when I had free time and was surfing the net, I decided to check out the site again. So I logged in and noticed I had 2 messages from this cute guy who’s profile I’d seen the last time I’d been on the site. Basically, the first message said, "You’ve got a great smile. You look really lovely in your pic. Don’t know what you’re here for, or what kind of guys you like, but would you be interested in chatting sometime?" The second one said something like, "I haven’t heard from you and its been about 2 weeks so you must not be interested. Good luck and God bless." So I replied that I had been really busy and hadn’t been on the site lately, and I wasn’t really looking for anything, but we could chat sometime anything. From there we started sending messages back and forth. After a while we exchanged numbers and were constantly calling and texting. After determining that he wasn’t dodgy I agreed to meet him in person finally. So we hung out, and from that first time we hung out I knew he was "the one," it was basically love at first sight. We’ve been together ever since.Strangely, the summer before I left for London, my mother kept telling me again and again that she had a hunch that I was going to meet my husband while there. I guess mother really does know best. :)

Marc and I met in the fourth grade. He moved here (NC) with his family from Pennsylvania. His first day of school, he was introduced to the class, the teacher pulled up an empty desk beside mine as I wedged my desk over to widen the circle, and Marc sat down next to me. He was sooooo shy, and I was immediately smitten. That was 1990. Who’d have thought, we’d be getting married exactly 20 years later! :)

Below is the story of how my fiance and I met. He wrote this for our website and I cried like a baby the first time I read it (who am I kidding – I tear up every time). I can’t tell it any better so I’ll just leave it to him. I’m a pretty lucky girl. A Girl Who Eats and Only Cries In Pain The first time I really met Lana was on an incredibly cool summer football day in the shadow of Kyle Field. It was also the beginning of one of the most disappointing football seasons I could recall in a long time. She was wearing a snug shirt and jeans and was eating. This was soon to become a common sight. One of the first stories my best friend Clay ever told me about the Rehak Girls (they were almost always referred to as “the Rehak Girls” until Clay decided to divide the two by dating one of them) directly involved their proficiency in eating. He had taken them to a hot dog party in his hometown of Wharton and, knowing no one there, the Girls had planted themselves together near a swing set. When Clay’s mother simply asked, “Are they going to eat?” Clay answered confidently, “Oh yeah, they’ll eat. Don’t you worry.” I remember thinking that a girl who eats is somebody I could easily like. However, by the time the Rehak Girls Can Eat story had been told to me, I’d already been exposed to Lana, albeit indirectly, through a series of pictures she had taken at a weekend long country music festival in College Station that I was unable to attend because I was burning myself with a welding torch out on an oil rig. She didn’t take the usual mundane pictures that accompany these kinds of events with shots of beer drinking and singers onstage; but rather, she had taken a montage of every single oddity at the event. There were quite a few. From extremely gross calf muscle man, to too-tight Wranglers dude, to somebody who couldn’t listen to music without biting his lower lip and closing his eyes (the “white guy lower lip bite” as she labeled it). Lana was never actually in any of the pictures of the event that I saw; merely a smorgasbord of redneck Americana that she had expertly documented and labeled. This, for me, plainly made this girl worth knowing; up until the day I actually met her, at least. The day I physically laid eyes on her, I was in a foul mood. I had just come off rig from a 3 day job, had driven the 3-1/2 hours into College Station, was upset about my career and my situation with my soon to be ex-girlfriend. Things had not been going my way lately and I was in no mood to meet new people. Therefore, when the Rehak Girls were finally introduced to me in the flesh I was more interested in finding alcohol. Rounds of shots bookended that evening. Strangely enough, I have a habit of being reintroduced to people that I’ve met before. I could say it’s an idiom of mine, but it’s actually probably closer to something more like idiocy. I remember seeing Lana and Elizabeth at the tailgate and not needing to be reintroduced. I also remember avoiding direct conversation with them, something I almost never do. I flopped down in a canvas chair and bitched about something that prompted Clay to hand me a beer. I told him I had decided to end my previous relationship, expounded on the reasons why, and summed up the entire situation with “I need a new girlfriend.” Lana promptly spoke up from next to the queso, “I’ll be your girlfriend” she said and smiled. I was speechless, which is rare. Rather than address the unique situation, I feigned confusion. Everyone laughed, Lana blushed, and I was intrigued. It wasn’t long thereafter that I had removed myself from my previous relationship and found myself talking to Lana quite frequently on gtalk. She would tell me about her day, her job, and whatever reality TV show she was currently watching and I would listen and ignore whatever was on my TV at the time. These were long conversations that easily filled entire nights. They weren’t particularly profound, but they were important. We frequently met up at football games and at Clay’s house in Austin. I had never visited Clay so many times with such common frequency (Clay, I saw that a Sumerian fertility figurine exhibit is in Austin. Maybe I can come down for the weekend and check it out?). Whether she was as interested in seeing me as I was her I couldn’t be certain, but I was always hopeful she would bite on the excuse as readily as I cast it out there. Finally, in January, the annual Steamboat Springs ski trip came up. Our time together, though spent mainly with the group, still seemed sequestered from them. We managed to have our own inside jokes, our own ski stories (mine skiing, hers falling), and typically found ourselves alone together even among the others. I was always next to her on the ski lift, at the bar, in the condo. It wasn’t an accident. It all came to a head the day after Lana had promised her cousin Ben that something bad would happen to him for launching a rock at a partridge next to the hot-tub one night. He missed. She, however, promptly broke her arm on her way down the mountain to show off her newfound snowboarding skills. She cried and posed for a picture next to the emergency crossed skis she was sitting next to, and then was snow-mobiled down the mountain and off to the ER. Elizabeth found the rest of us at the hot tub and informed us that Lana had broken her arm. “It seems kinda bad,” she said. Everyone was silent. She added softly, “She cried a little.” I thought nothing of the last sentence; however, it carried ominous overtones for Clay. After seeing his face I asked “Is that unusual?” Without looking at me, Clay said, “If she cried, she must be in serious pain.” Elizabeth nodded at this statement. A girl who eats and only cries in pain. Soon thereafter, I finally asked her out on our first date. In point of fact, I actually asked her out that very same night, in the main concert tent. She was wearing galoshes and a beanie cap and doing the robot with her arm in a sling telling us about the nurse who gave her a pain killer and instructed her “not to consume alcohol with it.” In telling the story, Lana demonstrated the dubious look she gave the alcohol hating little pill. After laughing I told her “You should date me.” She either didn’t hear me, or, hopefully, was speechless. As much a rarity for her as it is me. However, it was already too late. It dawned on me much earlier that evening how much there was to knowing Lana, how much I still didn’t know, and how much I wanted to know it. People talk often of love at first sight. I’m not a big believer in unqualified love. I’m a cat person; true love is earned. Shallowness in love seems acceptable to people provided its big enough; like a great lake, something beautiful to behold. But depth is something you don’t find looking from the shores. You only really get to the depth of someone by wading in. It takes more than a safe aesthetic appreciation of it, with your hands on your hips, admiring. It takes work; sometimes cold and sometimes dangerous, but therein lies the beauty of those depths. I won’t say I asked her out on our first date “properly”; mainly, because it was over gtalk, but it was sincere none-the-less. She also waited an uncomfortably long time to respond affirmatively. That’s okay though. She is a girl after all. A girl who eats and only cries in pain.

How I met the love of my life…the man of my dreams Paul.I was chatting with a girl on myspace and she was always throwing house parties so April 08 a friend and I went to one of her parties…I was then introduced to my now fiance Paul.

Hey Y’all,I truly believe in the power of prayer. I prayed to God every day to help me find my soul mate. Graciously enough, God answered my prayers and helped me meet the love of my life, Aaron. I was a college student finishing up my undergraduate degree and like most colleges students I was broke and living off Roman Noodles. I desperately needed a part time job. My uncle was a local business man and he found me a job at First State Bank. My uncle got me the job to secretly set Aaron and me up (Sneaky! Sneaky!) Aaron was a teller and he trained me to be a teller too. After working at the bank a few months, Aaron and I became best friends. We told each other everything. I began to develop a crush on Aaron. I just knew we were perfect for other. We shared the same values and beliefs. He was someone I wanted to take home to meet my parents. It was Christmas and our work hosted an annual Christmas party. I knew this was my perfect opportunity to ask Aaron out. Hesitant, I asked Aaron to the Christmas party (Yes! I did the asking!) To make a long story short, we did not go to the Christmas party together. A few weeks later, we decided to go to a movie together and the rest is history. Aaron later confessed that he also used to pray for God to help him find his soul mate. By the grace of God, we are truly destined to be together. My uncle’s plan worked!Unfortunately, my uncle died last March from Lung Cancer. While, he was sick he made Aaron and I promise that we would take care of each other for the rest of our life. Since he was such a big part in getting us together, Aaron and I are really sad my uncle can not be at our wedding in May. We believe that my uncle was the angel God picked to make a perfect match! Please pick us to win a Chocolate Butterbean sign. The signs are absolutely gorgeous and would look great at our wedding!!! -Brook

Cupid pointed us in each other’s direction and the rest is history. I’d gone to a local lounge after an amazing concert with a girl friend. She insisted we stop by our favorite lounge on the way home. Even though I had a huge migraine (probably from standing right next to the speakers) I agreed. We stood around for a while and then this random guy walked up to us and said he wanted to introduce us to his friends. We weren’t sure what to say but he had already waved his two friends over. We all politely introduced ourselves and casually paired off and started talking. We wound up talking all night! At some point, we both realized that the random guy was not a friend to either of us. He was our cupid, our angel. That was 3 years ago and I’m sooo glad I stopped by the lounge that night.

Our tale is one of broken technology, screaming Christian rock music and our love of Christ.The day before I had surgery , which was a Tuesday, my lovely Sony Vaio decided to die so I took it into Geek Squad at Best Buy to get it fixed. While there a nice "Geek" waited on me, however another more handsome Geek was standing behind him. Handsome Geek exclaimed "Hey! Nice Geek! Mind if I turn my Pandora station on?" Handsome Geek bounded over to the satelite radio and what did I hear? A bunch of racket that I recognized.I looked at Handsome Geek and asked him if he had ever heard of a band named Zao, he said yes. Chrome Donuts? Again, he said yes. Our conversation continued, talking about screaming Christian bands that I used to listen to when I was a freshman in high school. Sadly, Nice Geek had taken all of my information and I had paid the fee. The only thing left to do was leave.Three days later (and the day after my surgery), I received a call from the Geek Squad letting me know my computer was ready. I wasn’t feeling well so I decided not to immediately return to Best Buy so I decided to go the following Tuesday. Much to my delight I saw Handsome Geek behind the counter. He was up next to take a customer but there was one customer in front of me. Luckily, Handsome Geek asked Long Haired Geek to take the customer that was in front of me.Handsome Geek said "next customer please". I walked up to the counter and he gave me the rundown on my computer. Then we talked about God, music and more computer business. When it was time to go, he gave me his name to look up on facebook just in case I had any computer trouble in the future. The minute I got home I messaged him to let him know my computer was working and the rest is history.Oh and P.S. He is a Mac and I am a PC. We get along just fine :)

I grew up living in the Canadian Prairies. But my long time best friend lived out on Vancouver Island. I spent every other summer holiday growing up from about the age of 10 at her ranch. As we grew up a few years went by where we didnt see each other. Out of the blue she calls me up and tells me she had graduated from college and was having a celebration at the ranch. On a last minute split decision I decided to go. In an effort to make a holiday out of it I went a few days early. The day we were setting up the barn for the dance party, her friend Malcolm (my now fiance) showed up early to catch up with Sara. The first time I met him he walked into the barn backlight by the bright sun. I couldnt see his face, but I could hear him and was instantly attracted to his voice and upbeat attitude. Turns out he was a cutie too! He offered me a home brew and we were inseperable the rest of the weekend!! We danced the night away, spent the next day quadding in the rain forest on the ranch, and swimming in the local prestine river. This summer we will be getting married on that same ranch where we met almost 6 yrs ago!!! These signs would make a perfect edition : )

So I was always told by my boss…"never go fishing off the company pier"…. Ok, here we go….My fiance and I both worked for the same company (he was actually hired as my replacement at an office I was transferred from!) I left a little bit of a legacy at the old office because I was the new girl from Texas with the big southern accent! And from what I heard, some of the guys had little crushes on me. (completely innocent) :) Well, one day I had to visit the old office and that is when I met my fiance for the first time! I was just rushing in and rushing out, said the usual hellos and I was out the door! Well talk about first impressions! My fiance was not impressed- he said I seemed "snooty" and he didnt see what all my old employees saw in me! Can you believe that? My fiance said "he didnt think I was all that" lol (believe me, my fiance is the sweetest!) BUt my old office just thought the world of me! Anyways, we had a mutual friend from my fiance’s office and I was invited to a birthday party at a casino club (which was about a week later after the first impression meeting). Talk about sparks! My fiance and I talked and danced the night away! We went our seperate ways after a fun night. Then a week later I get a call from our mutual friend from the old office and he says "COME TO VEGAS!" It was my fiance’s birthday and a group of people took a spontaneous trip to Las Vegas. I called my boss and asked him for the day off… and I got it! I booked a flight and flew to Vegas for the weekend! My fiance and I have been together ever since! I never knew what "It was meant to be" meant, but with the chance meetings with my fiance and my tough boss giving me the day off…. it was all MEANT TO BE!

My fiance and I met at work three years ago … we feel as though we looked for eachother for 40 years and knew the moment we met that we would be together for the rest of our lives! I am from New England (a yankee, the horror!) but am now happily living down south with my born and raised Southern boy. We are getting hitched in May on a gorgeous organic farm in Palmetto, GA, where your (seriously) gorgeous handmade sign would look so beautiful, and would then follow us back home as a wonderful reminder of our perfect day. Please pick us! xo, Monique

So, I’m not engaged or married; nor have I ever been…but, I STILL want that free sign! Just beautiful designs by Chocolate Butterbean. Joni seems SO talented. I wonder if she’s got a sister who’s available…

I la la la LOVE Chocolate Butter Bean! In a frantic search for the perfect invitations for my wedding, I went to SWM and lone and behold you fabby girls came through yet AGAIN. My original plan fell through of having a friend design them for me, but she got too busy with work (not to mention invitations need to go out next month!). Anyways, my fiance and I met almost 6 years ago at work and we definitely knew that we couldn’t leave each other alone. We didn’t even try…emails, lunch dates, late night text messages all led to, "I can’t get enough of you!" A short time after working there (about 4 months) a couple of us that were working part time got let go for a full time replacement who could work longer hours. I thought it was great because now we could go public! (there’s always a positive twist on everything :)) We dated on and off for the next 4 years. I knew all along that I wanted to marry Steve, but like a lot of guys out there, it took him a little while to realize that and he almost lost me. In his effort to get me back, he got a fortune cookie at lunch one day that said "Don’t give up" and on the back of it it said "May" which is the month we both made a commitment to never let go of each other again and take the next step, getting engaged! I showed him what style of rings I liked and the requirements (wink, wink) and he took it from there. I wanted to be surpised, and boy did I get that! He flew my parents into town and planned a night to take just me to dinner and then we were going to meet up with his parents and mine after for drinks. I started feeling something fishy going on and he caught wind that I knew, so he through me for a twist and set the alarm for 5am the day we were supposed to go to dinner. The ring box was sitting on the alarm clock and our song (Never Say Never by The Fray) was playing and the sun from the window was shining in…needless to say all I could see was sparkles and I was quickly breath taken by him taking a knee at the side of my bed and asking me for my hand in marriage. Instead of going to dinner (at PF Changs where we used to have lunch dates when we worked together) just the two of us, we went to dinner at the resort we wanted to have our wedding, along with both of our parents to celebrate the engagement. It was perfect. Our besties met up after dinner at the bar in the lobby for drinks and more celebration. Later on he showed me the fortune cookies he had customized (for the PF Changs dinner date) and his said "Today will be the best day of your life" and mine said "Will you marry me?" Can you say too CAYUTE?! I am 87 days away and counting and couldn’t be any happier right now. I found my prince and I’m ready to live our fairy tale…..XO

March of 2006 I packed up my car and drove to Sunny South Florida from New Jersey in hopes of just escaping from my everyday routine and having some fun for a little while. I found plenty of fun and also got enrolled back into college. On mother’s day I really didn’t feel much like celebrating (since my mom was in NJ) so I went to meet my friend at a local bar for a drink. When I got there, I saw the most handsome man sitting with my friend. His name was Tony and he was out having a drink because his mom had passed few years earlier and didn’t feel much like being at home. We had a few drinks and laughed. All I wanted since I moved to FL was a pina colada on the beach, so Tony made a date with me to get me that pina colada. He made me laugh so hard and we had so much in common, the moment we became exclusive was over dinner a month or so later when his 5 year old son looked at me and said. "are you my daddy’s girlfriend?" I responded with a smile and said "i’m pretty sure".On the following Mother’s Day, tony took me to the most beautiful restraunt on the beach in Ft. Lauderdale, for brunch, ordered me a pina colada and got down on his knee in front of everyone. who would have thought a move 1200 miles away and a craving for a pina colada would lead me to meet the man of my dreams!

My fiance and I met while working at an outdoor education school in Maine. I worked there for one session, and then second session, Tyler moved into the apartment right below my cabin and started teaching there. The majority of the staff working there were in their twenties or early thirties, and the vibe was really kind of like an extended college experience. We all worked together, hung out together, made meals together, etc. Tyler and I became great friends, spending tons of time together with all of our mutual friends. I had a HUGE crush on him, but really couldn’t figure out whether or not he felt the same way, or even if it would be a good idea since we worked together, lived in the same building, shared the same friends… Eventually after six months of wondering, we finally kissed, and now it’s 3 years later and we’re getting married in June! The greatest thing is, I already knew he was one of my best friends before we kissed, AND our wedding party is filled with people we both consider our best friends! I actually force Tyler to sit down and look at your website with me all the time, and I can honestly say that these signs might be the first thing he’s shown genuine interest in! It would fit perfectly with our wedding reception, we hope you choose us!

This is a story of love that took 11 years to grow. Ben and I met in college, when I was a freshman and he was a fifth year senior (and he hates that I always have to point that out). We dated for six months, and then I went home for the summer and he broke up with me over the phone on memorial day…he also hates it that I point that out as well. :) I pushed for us to remain friends, as I always felt in my soul that we would be together one day. Of course my friends always told me I was crazy. :) Over the course of the next 7 years we both moved on with our lives and dated other people, but we would always stay in touch, usually when we weren’t dating anyone we would talk or hang out a little. He moved away to work for his father and began dating a girl. Two years later he called and said he was moving back to town, and that he had broken up with his girlfriend. This was right before Christmas, and shortly before my boyfriend broke up with me. He moved back in February of that next year, and we became inseparable. We walked through a lot of tough things together that year; having our hearts broken by other people, his parents divorcing, my grandfather dying. In August of that year we both decided to begin dating with the goal of being married one day. Two years later he proposed and we have been married for two years now. So after 11 years of knowing him, I married my best friend and he thanks me all the time for pushing for us to remain friends. These signs are beautiful and would be an amazing gift to hang in our living room as a reminder of our long journey and love for one another.

It was the first day of college. Campbell was a small, private, baptist-based university where all students were required to take a worship service class. For freshmen, it was CUW 100. For this one hour, one-a-day class, we were to worship the Lord. All students were assigned seats, and as fate would have it, Zack and I were assigned next to each other. We hit it off instantaneously, and as you can imagine, it was hard for us to pay attention to our speaker! There were checkers, who made sure that students were in the correct seats, but ours had to keep coming up to us to tell us to quiet down! It’s hard to believe that such a random seating chart could place us together, so we believe it to be God who placed us together. ;) And you know what’s also neat? The next semester, we were placed beside each other again!! Definitely fate….