We are so beautiful together. We do everything together, never apart. There is no moment when we dont want to be with each other. We absolutly love each other and plan on getting married really soon. We have been engaged for about 3 years now and every day with eachother just keeps on getting better, and we are super ready for kids but are commited to waiting till the wedding. 
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Everyone has their own story, the tale of events, triumphs and failures that lead them to be who they are today. Everyone also has a hero to that story, someone who was able to step in and make sense of the chaos around them. For me, Zak is my hero. He has taken me from a place of self doubt and fear into a life that I wouldn’t change for anything. He has been very open and supportive as I have gone through a lot of changes in my life and has been there with me the entire way. He has graciously embraced my son and the responsibility that comes with us. We only recently decided that we wanted to make our family official. We are now ready to take that next step in life to become husband and wife and can’t wait for all of our family and friends to witness the amazing people we have helped each other to become. The day means the world to us, and we would love the opportunity to make it even more magical. We are looking forward to our happ y ending and see our wedding as the opening to this new and wonderful chapter. Our wedding will be a moment of beauty and love not just for us, but also for those of you who helped us to get to this point. We ask that you now help us to make certain that its all we have dreamed it could be.
Its funny when your not looking for somebody to spend the rest of your life with, you stumble on the person you can’t live without. That is how we feel about eachother. We giggle on the fact on how we met a year and a half ago, it was May 2008 I had moved to Amarillo, TX and had only been there a month before I decided to have a girls day out. Derek had his first guy night in months and when he caught my eye I whispered to my friend “wow, he is gorgeous”, my shy friend, who had several drinks that night, walked up to Derek and told him that I was crushing on him. I could see out of the corner of my eye, Derek was checking me out, and when I was on the dance floor he came and started to dance with me. I now know that Derek was not the “Dancer” so it was really a good thing he came out to the dancefloor with me. We remember being at a cookout at his sister’s house, we had already been talking for a month, when his nephew walked up to him a nd said “Derek is this your girlfriend”, he looked at me and then back at his nephew and said “Yes, Xavion she is my girlfriend”. We moved back to Lubbock, in April 2009 and with every storybook relationship you always have a chapter that isn’t so pretty to read. Life was testing our love and being in the situation we were in it got the best of us, and instead of making eachother’s lives miserable we called it quits. After being apart for three months, everything we did just took us back into the memories we had being together. Every song on the radio took us back to when we danced and sang like goofballs in the car driving on our way to his little brother’s hometown football games. After all we have gone through we have proven to one another that we can’t live without eachother, and the tiny misunderstandings are not worth losing the person you want to grow old with. We are meant for eachother and our love has proven to be strong, and we are ready to devote ourselves to eachother and walk hand in hand through life and all of it’s blessings.
Derek and I had a complicated beginning. We met at a bar (I know, sounds cliche) and at first we just dated casually. Then I found out I was pregnant with Grace, and things got serious really quickly. Although it was rocky at first, we worked it all out. For the first 2 years of Grace’s life she was sick and was hospitalized twice for seizures. During those trying times is when I realized that Derek was the man I wanted to be with forever. Christmas day of 2006, on our way to a family dinner, Grace had her first seizure, and we ended up spending that day in the ER. That night she had another one & we had to go back, so our Christmas that year was spent at the hospital. The next day, Derek proposed. He’d wanted to do it on Christmas to give me an awesome present, but circumstances weren’t ideal, obviously. I immediately said “YES!!!” and was super excited to start planning! Then, on New Year’s Eve 2006, I found out I was pregnant aga in!! So the next year proved busy, with Grace going to daycare and both Derek & I working full-time. Grace was hospitalized again in April 2007, luckily for the last time. And in August 2007, Dylan was born. So, needless to say, wedding planning went on the backburner. Derek & I had decided, after a bad experience with daycare, that I would stay home with the kids while he worked. It was a risky move, especially with the economy tanking and his job being commission-based, but we felt it was the right decision for our family. Derek works extremely hard so I can stay home with our kids, but there’s not a lot of wiggle room in our budget to pay for a wedding, even a small, casual affair. I’ve been engaged for almost 3 years now, and I would love to be able to finally marry the man of my dreams, the father of my children, my complete opposite, and my soul mate (those are all Derek, by the way).
My Name is Michael Tennison II and my wonderful wife’s name is Megan we met each other while working at the same job in the Fall of 2006 & ever since than we have fallin in love married and now have a wonderful 1 year old son who means the world to us.. We were married June 6th 2008 at the Lubbock court house and even though it met we were husband and wife and would get to spend the rest of our lifes together happily..I know its not the dream wedding that my wife had always dreamed about..She has no clue yet that I have entered us in this giveaway contest & it would mean more than anything to me to finally be able to give her A Dream Wedding that we can share with all of our friends & Family. Thanks For Voting For US
Where to start. It’s been a long journey for me and my husband. We first meet through his best friend who was dating my sister. He was someone I was not used to dating, but had the most beautiful eyes that made me lost when I would see him. ( You know that blank stare.) He connected so well with my 2 children. He’s a kid at heart and bonds with any kids that come over. He will be with the kids running around playing instead of being with the adults. That’s one thing I love about him. We have been together for 5 years. I almost lost James 2 years ago, to what could have been a fatal gun shot to the back of his head and both of his legs. But I was blessed with a miracle and James survived. I was told that he would not be able to see, speak, and would have memory problems. Throughout our relationship, exspecially in the begining his Mom did not want us together because of race differences, so I was not able to see James while he was hospitalized, due to the accident, even though we have been living together for 3 years before this happended. I was not sure if he would even know me or remember what we shared together. I again was blessed with another miracle. When James was released he went to stay with his Mom for about 2weeks and then found his way home, to me. I feel to my knees and cried and cried, when I came home to find him sitting on our couch. We cried together and promised eachother that no one or anything would ever come between us. Since then we have struggled with the difficulties James was left to deal with since his accident, from speaking, walking, and his short term memory. We married at the court on January 9, 2008 in presence of only us and our 2 kids. He has never been married and does not have kids of his own nor have I been married, but blessed with 2 kids that I have raised alone till I met HIM, James. So this is a first for both of us. We would love to share our love and have a wedding to inv ite everyone that has been on our side as we have been through our relationship and struggles. Miracles and dreams are everywhere for everyone who believe and have faith. I have lived that and will continue to share that with my family. What makes our relationship special, is that through all this, we will still smile, laugh and love eachother.
James and I met last year at the gym. We happened to have mutual friends who officially introduced us together. We immediately changed each others lives. We knew that we were ment for each other in the beginning of our relationship. James serves his community by being a Lubbock fire fighter, and I am a nurse at Covenant in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and currently working on my master’s in nursing. When we are not working, we spend our time with our families. We are family-oriented people, in which, we keep our priorities straight: God, family, work. James proposed to me while I was at work. I only had 45 minutes until my shift was over, but James was soo excited that he came up there in his uniform (he picked up the ring after work) and proposed to me in my nurses’ lounge! It was soo special! I loved it! I can’t wait for our special day to get here so that I can spend the rest of my life with the love of my life.
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MY NAME IS VALERIE NICOLE OLMOS AND IM ENGAGED TO THE LOVE OF MY LIFE THOMAS JESSEE LILLER WE HAVE BEEN DATING FOR ALMOST A YEAR ON NOVEMBER 27TH 2008 AND RECENTLY GOT ENGAGED SEPTEMBER 4TH 2009. HE PROPOSED TO BE IN FRONT OF MY PARENTS HOUSE AND I WAS SO EXCITED LIKE ANYONE ELSE I CRIED AND SAID YES. BECAUSE HE MEANS SO MUCH TO ME. I JUST TURNED TWENTY- ONE AND HES TWENTY-TWO ALTHOUGH WE ARE YOUNG THIS LIFE IS THE BEST THING THAT COULD OF HAPPENED TO US WAS TO FALL IN LOVE.=] WELL I GREW UP WITH A BIG FAMILY AND CANT IMAGINE MY LIFE WITHOUT ANYONE OF THEM. ALTHOUGH MY FIANCE’S FAMILY LIVES IN FLORIDA I WOULD LOVE TO MEET THEM ONE DAY HOPEFULLY SOON BEFORE MY WEDDING I PLANED ON GETTING MARRIED IN JANUARY BUT UNFORTUNATELY I CANT AFFORD IT WITH US HARDLY MAKING INCOME IM GRATEFUL FOR THE LIFE I HAVE WITH MY FIANCE. AND SOON WANT A FAMILY TOGETHER MY FIANCE AND I HELP OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS WHEN WE CAN BUT UNFORTUNATLEY DONT HAVE MUCH TO OFFER B UT WE DO THE BEST WE CAN. I CANT WAIT TO MARRY MY FIANCE AND WISH I COULD DO IT SOONER. WELL A LITTLE ABOUT ME AND MY FIANCE HE WAS BORN IN MARYLAND TO JERI AND JAMES LILLER HE IS THE OLDEST OF FIVE KIDS. SHELBY AND SHAINA THEY ARE TWINS AND DYLAN AND CODY HIS FAMILY LOVES HIM TO DEATH EXCEPT THEY TALK OVER THE PHONE. AND THATS WHY I HOPE IF I WIN THEY CAN COME TO OUR WEDDING TO SEE IT. I WAS BORN AND RASIED IN LUBBOCK TX TO JOE AND MICHELLE HERNANDEZ I AM THE OLDEST OF SEVEN KIDS AND A TWIN I ALSO HAVE A NIECE. I WOULD LOVE TO WIN BECAUSE I HAVE ALWAYS DREAMED OF A BEAUTIFUL WEDDING AND LOVE WATCHING WEDDING SHOWS AND CRY CAUSE THEY ARE SO BEAUTIFUL. I WANNA BE WITH MY FIANCE TILL THE END OF TIME AND I DONT BELEIVE IN DIVORCE BECAUSE MY PARENTS HAVE BEEN TOGETHER FOR TWENTY-ONE YEARS AND MARRIED FOR THIRTEEN ME AND MY FIANCE WATCH FOOTBALL WHEN WE CAN BUT IM A TECH FAN AND HES A TEXAS FAN I LOVE GOING TO THE MOVIES WITH HIM HES MY BESTFRIEND I CAN TELL HIM ANYTHING LAUGH AT HIM WHEN HES DOING SILLY THINGS HES MY OTHER HALF AND I WANNA HAVE MANY MORE GOOD DAYS WITH HIM AS HUSBAND AND WIFE. AND SO PLEASE VOTE FOR ME TO HAVE THIS DREAM COME TRUE LOVE ALWAYS VALERIE NICOLE OLMOS |
David and I will have our 10 year “anniversary” in February 2010.
We met through work; he was our Business Office manager and he would call my office to check on us; make sure we had what we needed. I knew he was divorced and I had been divorced for about 3 years at this time.
I wasn’t too fond of him at first; I thought he was a pest! We started communicating by email often for work related issues and he was funny in his emails, so when my father bought my mother and I tickets to see Elton John, I was excited and needed to tell someone and since David was there on my computer, I decided to tell him. Long story short, he and his friend got tickets to see Elton too. I brought binoculars and actually spotted him in the crowd at the concert. I hadn’t seen him a social setting, so I wanted to check him out. He looked cool!
I found out through talking with him that a big interest of his was music, as was mine and we were both going to the FMX Birthday Bash so I made it a point to look for him. The interesing thing to note about us is that I was 32at the time and he was 45. We’re not exactly what people would expect to see at the FMX Birthday Bash!
I saw him and a friend of his sitting at a table and told David that he looked like he needed a shot so I bought him a shot of tequila and he’s been by my side ever since! He loves to tell that story; about me “picking him up”!!!
Since we were both divorced with children, we decided to take things rather slowly out of respect for our kids (he has 2 and I have 2) and to make sure this was not some passing thing. We both waited a while before introducing our kids to each other and it has worked out well. His kids are great and accepting of me and mine are of him.
We are in the process of annulling our first marriages. Mine has been annulled and we’re awaiting word on his. I am Catholic and he is not, but his first wife was. I don’t expect David to convert and he respects my feelings on my faith.
I did not have a proper wedding; I was married by the JP the first time and I would like to do this right this time. I don’t plan on marrying again and it would be nice to have a nice dress and all the nice things that accompany a lovely wedding.
My Catholic upbringing is important to me and I would love for my parents to see their only daughter do the right thing at age 42!
David and I have a great love for music which is what keeps us connected. We were friends first and that friendship is so important at our age and after a failed first marriage, it means everything.
I forgot to mention why we make an “Awesome Couple”….. we are awesome because we love great music of all kinds and you will always see us around town at different concerts, music venues and art events. We both work for the government, he for the state of Texas, I for the Federal government. I am an Air Force Veteran, currently serving Vets where I work. We both taught religious ed for 8th grade, which was both difficult and rewarding. We are awesome parents to great kids and awesome Godparents to our God-daughter, Autumn!!!
Cruz and I have been toegether now for 7yrs. We have 2 beautiful girls Brooklyn 5 and Haleigha 2. Cruz brags a lot that he knew that we would end up together. We met when i was working as a waitress at Pizza Hut. He tells everyone now that he saw me there and knew that we would end up together. I was leaving with my best friend and my best friend and his best friend were dating at that time and one night my best friend and I decieded that we were going to go grab some coffee at a burger place that she worked at. Cruz came to talk with my friend because he new her from his best friend. Well we started talking and we talked all that night and into that weekend and ended up moving in together 3wks later. (I know seems pretty fast..right, here we are 7yrs later).We have been through a lot of trials and tribulations with in our 7yrs together but we have always been in love with on another which has brought us there our troubled times. We never go t married we have just been living together and with in the last couple of yrs we have commited ourselves to the lord and are greatful for everyday that he has given us together, and that is why we want to make it right we really want to get married in our church,by our pastor in the eyes of the awesome Lord God almighty. The thing is that with the economy being so slow right now cruz got laid off in May so now its just me working its really tought and we dont have the money to have a wedding because it does get really expensive. We would be so blessed to be given the chance to have the wedding of our dreams.
