The story of Jeff and Lisa began five and a half years ago…

Jeff and Lisa met through a mutual friend, Dave McGillivray. Lisa went to high school with Dave, and after high school Dave and Jeff became friends at Acadia University. After completing University, Jeff moved to Calgary. Being new to town, one summer night Dave invited Jeff to meet up with some of his Calgary friends. This is where he first met Lisa.

It was after a few months and many hours of courting that Lisa agreed to go on a date with Jeff. She brought her best friend with her and requested that he bring along a friend as well. Jeff arrived late to Joey Tomatoes as he was frantically looking for someone to come with him on short notice.  Luckily he has a number of accountant friends and it didn’t take long to find someone eager for a free meal.  The date went longer  and better than Lisa had expected, so much so that she received a parking ticket.

Jeff and Lisa had finally met again.  They continued to meet, eventually needing to buy only two meals and no longer pay parking fines.  Their relationship developed into the love and friendship they now share.

Lisa & Jeff I am looking forward to your big day! We will make sure that when we are shooting the formals we will throw a bit of extra change in the parking machine! Shawna

Tony and Jessica are High School Sweet Hearts! Through-out High School they had a number of science classes together, and in Grade 11 they sat next to each another for the entire year during Biology 20/30. Tony terrorized Jessica with the frog dissection and took part in leaving frog intestines inside of her binder (he still had yet to learn that teasing a girl wasn’t the best way to her heart – but in a funny way it melted hers). They quickly became best friends, spending every weekend together, and when they weren’t together they spent endless hours on the phone. Tony became interested in Jess a long time before she realized she had the same feelings for him.

Around the time people started asking dates to High School Grad, Tony and Jess were still just friends. However, he’d found out another guy Jess had been seeing was going to ask her to Grad the next weekend, so that afternoon during a diploma study session at his house he asked her. Because he was such a fun, sweet, reliable guy and Jess knew they would have a wonderful time, she said yes! By the time Grad rolled around they had started dating, and now here they are today, over five years later, getting married! Jessica & Tony I had so much fun watching the two of you enjoy each other. Your laughter it contagious!!  I can’t wait for your big day! Lots of love – Shawna

Reid and Marita met at work and felt an instant connection. They quickly learned that they had many people in common, attended the same Elementary, Junior High and High Schools, shared the same values and many common interests. Soon they became best friends; inseparable and laughing everyday together. They knew immediately that they never wanted to be without each other. Marita remembered a conversation they once had when they first started dating, that no matter what path this relationship leads to in the future, that no matter what, that they will always remain friends. Marita even entertained the idea of moving to Vancouver in the fall of 2010 (before she had met Reid) but as they became friends, she knew that plan wasn’t going to happen anymore. She remembers mentioning it to him and he immediately said, “No! You can’t leave!”

After having only known each other a few short months and dating only one month, they booked a trip to Mexico together for New Year’s Eve. It was the best vacation they had ever taken! They then decided to book another trip right away for their Easter break, which was when Reid proposed to Marita. She was shocked, as it was unexpected, “but when YA KNOW, YA KNOW”. They are the happiest they have ever been. They waited their whole lives to meet each other and believe it was true fate that they both got jobs at the same school in 2009. This my friends is a true love story and I am so please  that I get to share their big day with them this upcoming October! I seriously CAN NOT WAIT! Lots of love – Shawna