Today is my 13th wedding anniversary. Apparently, the 13 year mark should be commemorated with something in lace. Not sure about that, but there will at least be a dinner on the agenda. I figured since I've taken down my old website, it would be time to re-post the story of how my wife and I met. I've shared this a number of times with people, so now I can start pointing them back to my website for all the details.
Well, here it is. I'm sure all of you have been waiting for me to add this page since I said it would be here in our Christmas cards we sent out. So if you're interested. Here's the whole story of how we met:
Sunday morning, July 5, my mom called and said they were going to be in Nashville for International Laymen's Conference, and asked if I wanted to meet her, dad, a friend of the family's and some other extended family members for lunch. I said "Sure" and told them I'd meet them at the Rivergate Cooker after church.
When I got to the Cooker, Rose, the friend of the family, said she tried to get Tiffanyto eat lunch with us but she had other plans. I told her she would have to work a little harder the next time. Shortly after that a couple was walking towards the front doors and Rose said, "There's the Cables. Hey! They've got a 24 year old single daughter that's the youth pastor at Southwest". I told Rose she needed to settle down and stop trying so hard to fix me up. When the Cables walked in the door the first thing out of Rose's mouth wasn't "Hello" or "Hey there, what are you all doing here", it was "Do you have a picture of Kim to show Jason?" They both looked in their wallets and neither of them had a picture, her mom, Theresa, finally said "Well just imagine me but younger".
Through the rest of the afternoon I found out that NCRA, the company Theresa worked for, has a lot of travel needs and that I could possibly help her out with things in the future since I'm a corporate travel agent. Although I was interested in meeting Kim, I didn't think much about it because there was no way I was going to call her up and say, "Yeah, our parent's met and I met your parents and they all think we should get together sometime". That just seemed like too ignorant of a way to meet someone. I just thought the next time I was in Indianapolis, maybe I'd try to meet her then. I was more interested in the possibility of making some extra money by helping her mom with future business travel plans. Kim's dad, Marvin, had given me Kim's email address. I later found out that he's never done this with anyone and that Kim got pretty upset with him for giving her email address out to a total stranger.
Just like with a phone call, I didn't plan on emailing her and trying to set up a date.
Later that week I was talking to my supervisor at work about trying to have Theresa's company as one of our outstide accounts. She told me to get her to send us information about her company and we'd send her information about our services. I lost Kim's mom's phone numbers and email address, so Thursday night, July 9, I emailed Kim and lightly touched on the whole story. I told her I needed her mom's contact information, not realizing that Kim was her mom's assistant at NCRA. In telling Kim the story through email I tried to shorten it by saying things like "to make a long story short <snip>.........so anyway". She thought that was cute and a little after 11:00pm on Saturday, July 11 Kim called me in Nashville. A definite plus in my book.
To make a long story short ...<snip>... Kim and I talked all night that night, a little bit the next night, all night Monday night, a little Tuesday night, and all night Wednesday night. Now when I say "all night", I don't mean till 2:30-3:00am. I mean till we both had to hang-up and get ready for work. That Thursday at work I decided I was going to try and leave early Friday and drive to Indy to see Kim. At 6:00pm, Friday, July 17, I headed to Indianapolis to meet her.
I pulled into her driveway at approximately 10:30pm. She was the only one home. Her parents and two younger sisters, Brittany and Kendra, had left for Bob Evans for a late meal. I rang the doorbell and was met by a beautiful lady. Kim invited me in to sit on the couch until we left. I remember not believing how many times the phone rang or someone knocked on the door. I later found out that the reason for this was many were told of my ETA of 10:30pm and were calling to see if I had gotten there yet.
To shorten this story a little more ... <snip> ... over the next several weeks Kim and I talked on the phone more and I drove up every weekend I could. From that first trip, until I moved to Indy in October I put close to 8500 miles on my little '86 Prelude. About 3-4 weeks after we first talked I surprised Kim one night by showing up at her apartment. Although she'll jokingly not admit to it now, we told each other later, that that was the night we both had the feeling that "this might be the one". Through this whole time my weekly schedule was pretty much leave work on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday nights (depending on my work schedule) and drive to Indy. Then on Sunday or Monday night, reluctantly drive back to Nashville. Also during that time there was one weekend that I went on vacation with her and her family to Arkansas, but that's a whole other long story.
To the delight of my mother, I began looking for a job in Indianapolis before I moved up there. During one of my weekends I interviewed with BTI America's (now BCD Travel), a travel management company. Their sole account is Eli Lilly and Company, the "cash cow" employer of Indianapolis and Indiana I was told. I wrapped up my last week of employment in Nashville Friday, October 9th. I drove to Indianapolis that weekend and began my new job Monday, October 12th. I'm living with my oldest brother and she's moved back in with her family to save money for the wedding on March 27th, 1999. So that's the story. I hope you've enjoyed it, more importantly, I hope I can point people to this site now when they ask how we met.
There it is! The story of how we met. To recap the last 13 years:
- July 5, 1998 - Heard the name Kimberly Cable
- July 17, 1998 - Met her in person for the first time
- 31 days later - asked her parents if I could marry her (they both laughed)
- October 9th, 1998 - moved to Indianapolis
- October 31st, 1998 - proposed and engaged
- March 27th, 1999 - married
- March 28th, 1999 - around 2am conceived our 1st child. Yep! Honeymoon baby!
- December 1st, 1999 - birth of Ethan
- May 20th, 2002 - birth of Abby
Lots of fun, great memories and tough times between all of those events and now, but they've all been worth it! Now, we're looking to renew our vows in an outdoor wedding venue. Maybe we'll do this in our 15th year anniversary. And it's time for me to look for wedding ties and attire we're gonna use.