Too often these days we get so caught up in the mundane details of our lives that we forget to see the wonder in what we have, in the loves and friendships we find in our lives. We are so busy with our monthly bills and our daily jobs that we forget to see the miracles all about us. Weighed down by our every day lives, we forget that fairy tales can come true.

There is magic in love, beauty in friendship. Is it not a miracle that in all the wide world, two people might find each other, fall in love, and spend their lives with one another? Sometimes when life treats us unfairly, when love leaves us broken-hearted, we forget that someday our prince will come. But if we open our hearts to the wonder about us, our own fairy tales can come true.

Believing in the magic in everyday life, seeing that our lives can be fairy tales, doesn't mean that the real world is any less there. Bills still need to be paid, daily jobs must be worked. But happiness is something we choose to have, as much as it is something we find, and when you choose to see the wonder in your life, miracles can happen.

In this world of rent, bills, and jobs, two people might - through a series of amazing coincidences - meet. Become friends. Fall in love. And find in each other they kind of quiet solace and passionate love that is the envy of others.

And so we did. Even to this day, it astounds me to think of all the circumstances that brought us together, so unknowing, and how if one tiny thing had been different, our paths might never have crossed. We have found within the depths of each other's hearts the fairytale that is ours - the love that will see us through the years. Together. We have faced our share of obstacles, and we harbor no illusions that we will not face our share in the future. But we know, too, that if we love each other, if we understand and accept one another, then we can make it through the tears and revel in the joys that await us. And when we are old and gray, we will look back and know we have lived our happily ever after.

For that is what you pledge when you join together in marriage. For better or for worse. Through good times and bad. But always together, from once upon a time to happily ever after.

Our Fairy Tale is the Story of Us. In brief, of course, with the best parts highlighted. Because this website is a celebration of our love, and of our commitment to each other. The mundane, boring details of living in the twenty-first century are all still there. But that we love each other and find happiness in one another - that is what is important. And that is what this site is all about.

Many of you came to this site to get the details on our Wedding. Click here to go directly to that part of the story.

For those who want a more complete picture of the tale of the beginning of our happily ever after, we invite you to peruse this website at your leisure. But please be aware that our fairy tale is still being told, and thus this site is not yet complete.

We begin with the story of the Lovers. That's us, naturally. It is the briefest of introductions to who we are.

We continue with the story of our Meeting. It is really quite memorable, and makes up part of the fairy tale that is our tale.

And of course the Engagement follows next - for though a wedding truly marks the beginning of the happily ever after, the engagement marks those early hours before the dawn of that new day, when the promise of sunrise is at hand.

And then there is the Wedding. What fairy tale would be complete without that? And in truth, our Wedding Day is the one day of the year where we are allowed to become the prince and princess of our dreams, to celebrate the glory of our love in true fairy tale fashion. And have no doubt that we do!

Ah, the Honeymoon! Now that truly is the beginning of the Happily Ever After, the first golden days of wedded bliss before the return to everyday life.

And finally there is Our Ever After... for as everyone knows, Ever After is just the beginning of the rest of the story...