Our seven year anniversary

August 20 was the seven year anniversary of Anders and my first official meeting. We sat next to each other at an 80s party thrown by a good friend of mine – and just like in the sappy movies - everyone else just sort of faded away and I locked in on Anders.

The night we met...

Before this, I guess you could say we vaguely knew each as we were both living in the same small town (Castlegar) and were both working on the same construction project. We were working on it from the opposites sides though -  he was an engineer for the company building the project – and I was working in public relations for the company who owned the project. Although I was at the construction site quite a bit - giving tours, taking pictures, etc., he was in project management and was in the site office so we never had reason to meet. 

Looking back - it is odd we didn't meet sooner as I knew quite a few of his colleagues’ pretty well, and he knew and socialized with a lot of my friends. But fate has a funny way of intervening and making sure things happen as they should. Anders had gotten out of a long relationship in 2004, and was finally just getting ready to start dating. I had also just gotten out of a very long relationship and was finally ready for a fresh start myself. So looking back, it is funny how things – when they are meant to be – just kind of all click together. If we had met even a few months earlier - who knows how it would have turned out?

Our wedding day...

We actually almost didn’t meet that night. I had just moved from Castlegar back to Cranbrook for a new job, and was still pretty high on the bitter scale from my last break up. I almost didn’t go, but my friend was known for throwing great parties, and I thought it would be a good way to re-enter the land of the living. Anders had played golf for about 10 hours that day, and was sun burned and exhausted. Lucky for me – his friends talked him into coming to the party instead of going home.

Max and Molly in the making...

It is true what they say – at least for me anyway – that you just kind of know right away. From that first night, I just felt so comfortable and safe with him. We have talked every day, at least once, since that first meeting and I have never had to worry (and still don’t) about my heart in his hands because I knew he would treat it better than his own. We may have officially gotten married in May of 2008, but I think of August 20 as our true anniversary as ever since that first night – my heart, body and soul have belonged to Anders.