Our love story began 17 years ago on Canada day in Ottawa. I like to say it was fireworks when we first met! We both were visiting friends and randomly met at a bar called The Brig in the Market. I was ticked at my friends for not wanting to watch the fireworks and Tony was with his drunk friend Rich, who I thought resembled a Russian figure skater.
Tony approached me and we chatted the night away. He told me he was attracted to my cardigan, and thought I looked like a girl who didn't hang out at bars. He now loves to joke that he knew instantly from the cardigan that I was a teacher and had a great pension!!
I never gave him my number but he found me and gave me a call a couple days later. It just so happened he was coming to Cambridge for a baseball tournament in 2 weeks. We met and went on our first real date. We went mini putting and to the horse races where we met up with my friends. Not a great date, in fact I wasn't sure we would see each other again. But I saw him again the next day and night and well it has been love ever since!
I was always told you would know when you met the right one, and fortunately for me, Tony was absolutely the right one! We fell in love fast and easily! We visited each other every weekend making the best of our long distance relationship.
10 months later, he popped the question at sunset at the Sandbanks (my love of sunsets has never waivered) and of course I said yes! We bought a house and I moved to Belleville in July planning for a wedding the next July.
We wed in Cambridge on July 27th, the hottest day of the year but the best day of my life! Our wedding was everything I ever had dreamed of.
It was a whirlwind of a relationship. Ups and downs as I tried to make a new home in Belleville. But our love has never waivered. I still smile when I think of him. I don't like to be away from him for long (as you all know)! I've always said that I never felt whole until I met him and life began when we met! I am a lucky lady. He is my biggest supporter, he calms me down, makes decisions for me (ha!) and loves me unconditionally.
Today we celebrate 15 years of marriage and I can't wait to spend the rest of my years with him!
Love you!
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