Hi Wedding Bells,

I am getting married next year on October 17, 2009 and I am truly blessed to have met my fiancée Massimo. We have been through a lot, school, family issues, being sick etc... to keep our relationship going and stick through the tough times.

I think that a gift like this contest would help us to enjoy us for once and get pampered.

We would really appreciate to be considered for this contest!

Thank you and have a nice day!

Sonia and Massimo

Hi Wedding Bells.

I would like to be considered as a contestant for a Dream Destination Wedding.

A little about ourselves. Chad and I have been dating for 10 years, since 1998. Chad was my grad date and we have stuck by each other ever since - for better or for worse, in sickness or in health. We have had our trials and tribulations over the many years of being together as all relationships do. Chad has gone through a couple surgery's due to his health issues and I have been his support through doctor and emergency visits not to mention unemployment as well. Every year things are better and our bond continues to grow. Due to financial difficulties marriage isn't our biggest concern or priority. We will be together forever either way - is our motto.

Now that we are going on ten years I am feeling that thing called a biological clock that is ticking away. I would love nothing more than to be married to this wonderful man I can call my husband and me his wife. We are not financially set yet to spend a few thousand dollars on a wedding. I am almost considering a civil ceremony at our court house as being his wife is more important than an expensive celebration of unity. I am doing my best to find alternative options enabling my family, relatives and friends to be an integral part of our special day.

Thank you for taking the time to read my story.

Nikki and Chad
nikj_101@yahoo.com

wow great story!

Hello Wedding Bells!!!!

Where to begin... My fiancee Micheal and I have been through some serious ups and downs the last decade or so. We are now in our mid 20's and have been inseparable since high school. Micheal went away to school and I stayed here where our true love story began.

Micheal's father was diagnosed with a rare form or spinal cancer which over the course of our relationship progressed and spread throughout his entire body. Mike changed from that point on and until the date of our proposal I thought I had lost the man I fell in love with.

Mike proposed on May 16th of this year and I see him slowly coming back to the happy fun loving goofy guy I once knew however with the current situation in his family we not only cant afford a wedding nor do we really want to have a wedding here in Toronto.

Both of our families have been through so much no one has had a decent vacation since.. this would mean a lot to all of us. Please consider us for this contest !!!

Thank you
xoxoxo Irene and Mike xoxox

Andrew and I met at a pick-up game of Ultimate on a rainy Saturday in our neighbourhood. I was waiting under a large tree for the rain to stop, and Andrew, ever the diligent person, was there 10 minutes ahead of time to join me and to chat before the others arrived. We later went for bubble tea a short walk away and chatted some more. He's always been attentive and charming in a gentlemanly fashion and I caught on that he was interested in spending more time with me. Over the last 2 years and 3 months, we've grown closer to now know that we want to spend the rest of our lives together. His family, who live on a farm in Durham near Owen Sound, welcomed me with arms wide open, and showed me a family that loves each other unconditionally. He's the man I've been looking for all my adult life. Now that I am 30 years old, and he is 33, we are ready to commit, having started with the purchase of our new condo. I love this man, and he makes me feel like the luckiest woman alive. I couldn't be happier.

I wasn't looking for love when I found Larry. My friend convinced me to head out to a local bar for a girls night out. I initially tried to avoid Larry because the first time we spoke consisted of
him offering to be my friend and I's photographer for the night after he witnessed our difficulty trying to take our own picture. To this day we cannot agree on "who asked who to dance first". But what we do agree on is how much we love each other and that we want to share this with our entire family but just need a little help in doing so!

This may not be the type of story you consider in this contest but nothing ventured nothing gained. We have been very fortunate. We have both been healthy and have not suffered from any serious illnesses. We also have a fabulous family that support both of us more then we could ever imagine and/or hope for. We have also been fortunate to have attended University and post-secondary education. The only thing that has been holding us back from our dream wedding is the financial aspect which I know stands as an obstacle for many.

What makes our situation unique is that our families are incredibly large and are located in different provinces. This opportunity would also give us a chance to have all of our family in once place for this special event in our lives.

We want nothing more than to have our dream wedding , but it is much harder to save for a wedding when you school loans and debt. I want nothing more than to have a day to show the world how very much in love we are, and this contest is the means to do it.

Please consider us in this dream wedding contest - we would definitely appreciate it and would show all a great time :) Thanks for reading our story

Bonjour Wedding Bells!! I'd like to first and foremost thank you for giving all of us woman dreaming of a dream that will be challenging to make come true on our own a potential possibility. I met my fiance in highschool, grade 9 to be exact. Its been a long but amazing 7 years as we have grown into adults together, seeing ourselves change from young teens to the capable, hardworking 21 year olds we are today. Although we work hard, it does't ever feel like enough. Our jobs are what we've always wanted, but the pay is so low we have trouble making rent. This wedding is a dream come true but also in some ways a nightmare, because I'm so scared we'll be incapable of making our fairy tale a reality. Hoping for the best is always my motto, so I'm going to go on striving for that, however, in life I find its also important to prepare for the worst.
With your gracious help, the worst doesn't have to be a reality. Any support would be moret han appreciate. Thank you so very much. x0x

My husband & I were married in Puerto Plata, DR on January 22, 2009.
I am so upset with how our wedding day & entire week went that I feel I deserve a wedding do-over. My biggest regret is not hiring a professional photographer. We had my husbands uncle take our pictures and I am so disappointed in them. I cannot even find a nice picture of just the two us looking at the camera (both of us!) to frame. I cry almost daily over this. Many of our pictures are blurry...and there is zero creativity in our pictures. I just wish I had included a pro in our budget. Another huge upset is the fact that it rained on our wedding day. I know - that's supposed to be good luck, but it completely interferred with the wedding location. We picked the RIU Bachata because it had this amazing clifftop gazebo. Due to the non-stop rain, we had to move the wedding to the covered terrace of the dining hall. This broke my heart. The reason we picked that particular resort was because I wanted to get married on the clifftop. The wedding coordinators did not play my music properly. I did not have a reception - we just shared the steakhouse with another wedding, with only a divider between the two groups. We did not have a party after, we just went to the disco, which was pretty dead. So...that was just the wedding day. My travel agent was a nightmare. She was fantastic at the beginning, but once she got the booking she could care less about us. The final straw was when we arrived at the resort we did not have the rooms that we had requested. I had the email that my TA had sent to the resort with our particular requests and it turned out she sent it to Mexico...yes, freaking Mexico!! And we were in the DR. I was so upset!! We were all supposed to be in the same block of rooms & we weren't. And to top it all off, as the bride and groom we walked into our room complete with two double beds!!! The resort was good about it & managed to get us a room with a king bed. But we were still on the ground floor & did not get our upgrade that we were supposed to get as a perk of booking a wedding! Over all, it was just a huge disappointment. The only thing I liked about the whole thing was my flowers. It is so upsetting just knowing that it is all over & there is absolutely nothing I can do about it. It was what it was & that's it. I truly believe I deserve a do-over wedding!

Colin and myself met in our last year of college and have been dating for almost five years now. We have been trying to save for our wedding and a house for a long time now, and just cant seem to stay on top of everything by the time we pay into our student loans, and necessities. We are both biotechnologist with Colin working in the environmental field as well as taking on a second job to help save, and myself working in a cancer research lab at Queen's University. We love our jobs so much as we see the need for the opportunity to better the future for so many people and couldn't imagine doing anything else, however it's hard to save for our future with all the cut backs on funding. We spend so much time trying to help others that sometimes we just don't have time to relax and enjoy being together, its especially hard with Colin working evenings and weekends too . I think this contest is an opportunity of a lifetime and we would be so grateful to be considered for this contest. We wish all the best to everyone who writes!

Thank you

Sincerely,

Darlene & Colin

Dear wedding bells,

Our story up until the present reads like this.. While attending a youth group ran by a local church, he caught my eye.. His gorgeous eyes and cool swagger had me grinning from ear to ear. After spending some time together, we grew closer as friends but did not further our relationship much more than that. Sometime later in life, we met up once again and have been inseparable since then.

We are trying to get married again this year, however we have also been trying to do so for 5 years now.. Every year it seems to be put off due to one reason or another and my fingers a crossed and I am wishing this year is the year!!

We have two beautiful girls and our wish is to have them help us celebrate our love and our family by being chosen for this great adventure.

If chosen this gift would be one of a lifetime, and I vow that if we were to receive this great opportunity we will donate a portion of our monetary gift to a charity close to our hearts.

I deserve this dream wedding because that is exactally what it is a dream. To me anyway I can't afford the nice things for my love I wish I could. I am a single father and my son Jacob was just diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I have a stressfull job and don't get paid enough for what I do. I really think this would change my whole life and make an impossible dream come true! My love of my life loves me and has for 4 years now. Everyone we know is geting married and we are stuck planning and it never works out financially. So please pick us as we deserve it soooo much and would be forever greatfull!

Joshua Karls

Dear Wedding Bells,
I came across your contest for a dream wedding and figured why not give it a shot. I met Jorge in 2007, on set during the filming of "I am Legend" staring Will Smith, When I knew he was going to be the man of my dreams. We like many other couples entering your contest have been through alot both emotionally, physically, and spiritually. After six months of dating we became pregnant got engaged and in June of 2008 we had a son Thomas L Cruz. We both recognize all the blessing we have recieved during this time most of all how much stronger our love has grown. I know that he would love, love to have a dream wedding just as much as me. Since he has lost both his parents as a child, while I lost my father only a year ago, we know the meaning of familys unconditional love not to mention its importance to us in our sons life. Even being considered would be an honor so I hope that my prayers could be answered so we maybe united in Gods peace and love. Please help me make my fiances dreams cometrue.
Sincerly
Yazmin S.
ysancho4@optonline.net

Dream wedding bells,
I live in a small town with the love of my life we was friends before we started dating so you can say hes my best friend. We have been dating for almost two years now and to have this dream wedding would be a dream come true to me. Because we have been having some hard time with bills been behind hospital bills and with me the only one bring in the money makes it even harder to save and plan for a wedding. He has been trying to fined a job for almost a year now but no luck. So this would mean a lot to suprise him with a dream wedding. My number is 970-1006 I hope you pick me for your dream wedding.

Our first kiss sealed the deal...and that was in high school over 11 years ago. Yes we are high school sweethearts who have wanted to tie the knot for a long time. But I truly knew that my fiance was the one for me during a one year friendship we built when I was 16 years old, before we started dating when I was 17. He was so patient and so loyal. He stood by me even though he had to wait and watch me date someone he knew wasn't the one for me. Well it paid off because we've been inseperable as a couple ever since. There were long periods where we were separated by long distances as we persued secondary education degrees and as he played university basketball, but we never gave up...the love was too strong. And I love him even more today:-)

The distance appart was extreemly hard to adjust to. We missed each other dearly each day but still kept in touch EVERYDAY. This distance persisted for many years and we wanted to get married the whole time but never had the support and encouragement of our families at such a young age, plus we also knew we had responsibilities to be able to build up our lives (in trying to trust and respect the advice of our parents and elders), but we really just wanted to be together. We never wanted or thought it would take this long to happen but God allows things to take place at the "right" time, and if it be God's will it will take place at the right place. So here I am.

I believe we deserve a dream destination wedding because we were DESTINED to be together, getting married has been our Dream, we've travelled a long road to get here and would not hesitated to travel that extra mile to say I do. We just want to get married once and for all, please help us seal this chapter in our lives. Through all of our trials, we recognize God has blessed us with each other and while a desination wedding would add to this blessing...it would also be a dream come true!

Thank you for this opportunity and God Bless.

On April 28, 2006, after many emails and telephone conversations, Tiffani (25) and Andrew (26) met for the very first time in person.

Our first date was a fun and exciting game of mini golf. Andrew came to pick me up at my house. He was so cute. To make me feel more comfortable he wore orange, my favorite colour!

When we arrived at the mini golf course, it was sad to see it was "closed for renovations". We then made the best of our night and decided to go out for drinks instead.

Andrew and I both knew after this first date that it was definitely "love at first sight".

Andrew and I continued our relationship and started working together at the same hair salon. Many people thought that it wouldn't work with us working together. Did we show them how well we work together and this is when we both knew that we were meant for each other. On May 1, 2008, both myself and Andrew opened the doors of our very own salon, "The Root of Hair Studio". http://www.therootofhairstudio.salons...

It has been over a year since we opened our salon and we are happier now then ever before. Andrew told me that he would never leave me nor hurt me and I knew that he was the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.

On December 25, 2008, Andrew took me to the very first place we met. It was there and then that I knew he was going to ask me to spend the rest of my life with him.

When Andrew asked me to marry him, I was in total shock, he didn't get down on one knee, nor have a ring in his hand. So what did I say, "NO", thinking he was kidding? He then pulled out the ring of my dreams and I started to tear and screamed, "YES"!

Andrew is the love of my life and I am his!!!

We deserve a destination wedding because when we were kids we both dreamed of being married on the beach. Both me Tiffani and Andrew have been through a tough year with the opening of our salon. Having no help from the banks because of the way the economy was the banks told us that a salon was just too high risk. We had to dip into our savings that we planned to use for our wedding. Winning a destination wedding would make our dreams come true and help us to have a real fairytale wedding.

We cannot wait to spend the rest of our lives together and share our special day with our friends and families.

Hello Weddingbells.ca,
Where to start. well 2 summers ago we had started to hang out a bit at the lake at the cabin wakeboarding and stuff and we really hit it off we started to hang out with eachother everyday. Then we are not really sure why but split from eachother only to find out months later that we reallyreally actually loved eachother and that we never wanted to stay away from each other more than a day. We were a sure couple for few months and realized we wanted more. We had talked things through not only for ourselves but we also have my beautiful daughter that needed to understand our love and commitments to each other. So we sat down with her and asked her if she wanted Sara to be with us and live with us forever. Mackenzie relpied yes.

So we did, and have been never happier ever since. Every family does go through its qwerks and times of ruffness, and sickness but we made it throught it all and then some. That's when we knew we were ready to become one!

So I proposed. Sara Said yes. It was the happiest day of my life. And what would make it ever more perfect is make her my wife, somewhere hot. We would be so happy as a family, by winning this fabulous drem wedding.

All our best - Keith And Sara (And Mackenzie)

Hi Weddingbells
I met my fiance Caleb on the internet.
Since I'm a nurse I love mission trips. (I got into a team who sponsored me to go and work at one of the poorest places on the Philippines).
I met Caleb 2 and a half years ago. At that time he was a volunteer in the UK. And also he was part of the organization of a mission trip taking place in Romania.
So I contacted him to get more information. That's how we started to talk. We talked for 2 years. And after 2 years we realized that its more than friendship.
By that time he was back in Peru, and I was in Serbia. It seemed like impossible to work this relationship. But we prayed and believed. And finally i got to see him this June. I knew it after the first day together in Peru that he is THE ONE.
We have been throu a lot. Coming from 2 different cultures is really hard, but our love is bigger.
We want to get married next july, but since we both come from poor families, we have no idea how to make it happen.
I always dreamed of a WOW wedding just like every girl, but last week talking to my parents I just realized that they can't afford it.
This is why I started searching, searching for help.
I believe in miracles...Finding Caleb was already a miracle....
This offer sounds like a miracle too, that is why i decided to apply...
"If you believe that dreams come true, there is one that's waiting there for you"
I believe! :)

cattydangerous@gmail.com

i met my fiance bert at his business. he is a car salesman. i had just gotten my car reposessed. oh how i loved that car! BUT i went into his work and there was something about his blue eyes and his muscles that i had to get to know..so we spent a year and a half getting to know one another. finally on may 5th 2010 we got engaged! i couldnt of asked for a more amazing man. he is everything a girl dreams about in a husband. he has been through a lot himself. he was in a bad car accident and was in the hospital for 2 months. he had to learn to walk again.. he was a bouncer at a club and got stabbed a bunch of times. he has had really bad luck and im hoping im the good luck he needs in his life. i have had my share of crazy ex's and so has he and finally we have found each other. when you find the person your ment to be with you just know it and i have truely found that in bert. forever by his side is what i want...