A few things you may not know...

A Marriage\Wedding Meme

1. Where/How did you meet? I had just graduated when Len started teaching at BGA. My sister was still a student there and missed a day of school during my spring break. I thought it would be nice to go get her work and see some of my favorite teachers. While in the office, I saw a cute man walk down the stairs, we waved at each other and I asked the secretary who that was. For all I knew, he was married or had kids, but I still said "he's cute...set me up with him!" He called the very next day. He never found out that version of the story until after we were married. He said that later that day the secretary said "did you see the cute Haley H.? You should give her a call" So he thought all that time that he was they one who initiated things:)

2. How long have you known each other?13 years

3. How long after you met did you start dating? the next week

4. How long did you date before you were engaged? 3 months

5. How long was your engagement? about 1 year

6. How long have you been married? 11 years

7. What is your anniversary? June 7,1997

8. How many people came to your wedding reception? I would guess somewhere between 300-400

9. What kind of cake did you serve? white cake with strawberry filling. Len had a chocolate cake...I think he had 3 cakes!

10. Where was your wedding? Southern Hills Church of Christ

11. What did you serve for your meal? Our wedding was at 3:30, so we just has appetizer like food...fruit, finger foods, cake, I really don't know b/c we didn't get to eat any of it!

12. How many people were in your wedding party? 7 bridesmaids and 7 groomsmen

13. Are you still friends with them all? I wish, but no we all moved around and lost contact...But 4 of them are my sisters!!

14. Did your spouse cry during the ceremony? I doubt it.

15. Most special moment of your wedding day? It was all special:)

16. Any funny moments? I was too nervous to eat and felt like I was going to vomit all day! I could only eat crackers and Sprite. I think something was wrong with one of the tuxes, but other than that I don't remember any crazy moments EXCEPT you can probably ask anyone who has looked at our wedding video and they will say I blinked too much...I must have a blinking problem when I am nervous!

17. Any big disasters? Some of our friends put condoms all over our car and threw them at us...at our church! I think there may have been a few that were left over for church goers the next day!!

18. Where did you go on your honeymoon? The Great Smokey Mtns. They weren't so great!!

19. How long were you gone? Supposed to be 7 days, but the cabin we had was so bad that I cried when we pulled up to it. We left 2 days early!! The hot tubs was infested with wasps...it was not a place I would recommend.

20. If you were to do your wedding over, what would you change? I would have a nicer honeymoon and maybe even a destination wedding(yes Sara, I have an obsession with them!) We would have also stayed around at our reception longer and enjoyed it rather than letting the coordinator make us do everything the way he wanted it done.

21. Greatest strength as a couple? Our faith in God, trust and love for each other

22. Greatest challenge as a couple?Daily life!

23. What did you dance your first dance to? We didn't have dancing at our wedding..we just had our first ddance this year at my brother in laws wedding. It was by Maclaine's request and was so funny because we weren't sure what song was going to be played we just knew that it was late and we needed to go home so we had better hit the dance floor at the next slow song. To our surprise it was Marvin Gaye "Let's get it on" That was funny and awkward to be dancing to in front of Len's parents!!

24. Describe your wedding dress: It was white satin A-line with an empire waist with beads. It had your typical 90's wedding style big bow on the butt! My veil was fingertip length. I loved my dress, though!

25. What kind of flowers did you have at your wedding? I loved my flowers so much. They were springtime colors and were bright with lots of roses, hydrangeas, greenery, and lots of other colorful flowers in them.

26. Are your wedding bands engraved? yes, they say "never to part" and they have our initials and date on them.

27. How old were you when you got married?I had just turned 20 and Len was 26!