Deadline Weddings, A Growing Trend
By Justin Foss, Reporter
In the Center Point United Methodist Church for the Squires-Winterhof Wedding.
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Justin Foss
Story Created:
Nov 25, 2007 at 6:26 PM CST
Story Updated:
Nov 25, 2007 at 6:41 PM CST
Center Point - After four and a half years of dating, four years of which they spent hundreds of miles apart...high school sweethearts Amy Squires and Gavin Winterhof are getting married.
"I don't know how she does it," said Bridesmaid Nikki Manos. "Just being able to contact him through the phone and not knowing when he's going to call, I would never be able to do that."
We first met these love birds on Thanksgiving.
Gavin just returned home from Iraq. While over there he called Amy to tell her when he'd be home to get married.
Amy only had three months to plan this wedding. Their pastor says because of all the troops going to Iraq, deadline weddings are a trend they are seeing more and more.
"When they come home, they want something special in their life when they return and most of the time that's getting married," said Pastor Mike Ellson, Senior Pastor at Center Point United Methodist Church.
Amy says she's the kind of girl that has dreamed about her wedding since she was five-years-old.
"One day she called and said this is the date, we're going to start planning and within an hour her and her mom had literally everything planned," said Manos.
Amy's dad will tell you his daughter's biggest fear was Gavin's vacation from the military would be re-scheduled.
Gavin made it home on time, last Saturday to be exact.
"It's just been a miracle how everything has come together so well, and we've had people bending over backwards to make it work," said Robin Squires, Amy's mother.
State law mandates three business days between getting a wedding license and the ceremony. Thanksgiving made that impossible, but a judge helped out.
"The judge said she couldn't stand in the way of love," said Robin.
If you ask Gavin and Amy, nothing can stand in the way of love.
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