Veronica

The Bride's View Jason and I new each other for a few years before he actually asked me out. We met playing volleyball up at St Michael's church in Maple Grove. Never would I have dreamed that the quiet tall guy on the other side of the net would become the best thing in my life. I remember very clearly the day that Jason first asked me out. I was sitting on my mother's dining room floor wrapping Christmas presents (it was December 16th). He called and asked if I would like to go to dinner and a movie that night, of course I said yes. When I hung up the phone my Mom asked me what the heck just made me smile like that. I told her this really sweet, very tall guy just asked me out on a date. We went to see Four Christmas's and then went to Lucky's Steakhouse in Clio. We ran into a family member of Jay's there and thus began his family's quest to find out who I was, what I looked like, and what kind of person I was. I was working at Under Armour at the time and I was in the back room and one of my associates came back and said, "don't go out front there is some one out there that wants to take a photo of you, she asked me if it would be weird if she took a picture." Later I found out that it was Sherry, she is quite frequently seen with camera in hand so it does not surprise me now! Some little things came along early that tested our relationship, but I found that I could not spend my life in the past and compare this man to the one of my past. I found that he has so much compassion and love for everyone around him. We had our first "fight" about a year after we had been together. I put fight in quotes because there was never any raised voices or anything like that, we talked, worked through some issues, and the next day we realized that life just would not work without the other one there! That was over 2 years ago and I could not be happier with the results. I have the man of my dreams in my life and by this time of the year in 2013 I will have his last name. I cannot stress how happy I am that I get to spend the rest of my life with Jason, he 100% the best guy I have ever met. Tom and Rita did such an amazing job raising this boy, I am so happy I found him! The Groom's Story