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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Tying the Knot
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
They met in January at a tsunami relief benefit and were married in May. Although their relationship and engagement was short they have their whole lives ahead of them to be together. Who am I talking about? Actress Renee Zellweger and country music star Kenny Chesney were married last Monday in a small ceremony on the Caribbean island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
I know some people are thinking four months is just too soon to meet someone and get married. But isn’t that how it used to be for our grandparents’ generation? Maybe we are doing it wrong. We wait so long to get married — are we making a mountain out of a mole hill. We over-analyze the person and the relationship and thus find every flaw and reason for the relationship to end.
I’m not saying marriage is not a serious endeavor, but do we think ourselves out of love?
On May 21, Leanne DeFrancisco will marry Jason Manning, the carpenter who lived next door when Habitat for Humanity volunteers started building her Suwanee home. He took one look at the brunette in the tool belt, and a courtship began amid buckets of paint and stacks of shingles. Read their story
Stories like this keeps hope alive for me that there is truly someone for everyone out there. And that there is no timeline when it comes to matters of the heart. We always talk about what goes wrong but who has examples of relationships that have been right?
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