Rena Holben
“My husband and I just married in October of 2009. Neither of us had ever been married before. When we met I was working in a hardware store and attending PSC full time. Darin was working at an elevator and would need items from my store from time to time. The time to time visits would become more frequent as our conversations grew more in depth. He finally asked me out to a late lunch after work one day. We sat in that restaurant for almost four hours with eyes locked enjoying a wonderful conversation. This was almost six years ago and we are the best of friends to this day.
Crystal Gibson
“I met my husband when I worked at the Lied Lodge gift shop. His pick-up line to me was 'That's a nice blouse you have on there. I bet your boyfriend likes it'. He thought he was being
smooth, but I knew exactly what he was trying to do!"
Jenny Kearney
My husband (Mike) and I met at the Ambassador Wellness Center in 1999. He was completing his internship and I was hired as the nutritionist. When we first met, we were great friends oblivious to everyone else laughing as we insisted that "we are just friends." I remember thinking how he was going to make someone very happy - he treated people with respect and a caring, empathetic heart that was so impressive. It took four months to figure out that I was that someone who he could make happy! Only six months after we started dating, he asked me to marry him. We agreed from the beginning of our marriage that the purpose of a spouse is to help the other person get to heaven. Our relationship is what anchored my faith in God and our marriage is what has helped that faith to grow. We have been blessed with two amazing, caring and, yes, "energetic" boys; James, 7 and Joseph, 5. We will be married 10 years in October. There is a beautiful comfort in our marriage that nothing else can match.
Sheryl Allen
We were students at UNL and his fraternity house and my sorority house were scheduled to go door-to-door one Sunday afternoon (November of 1982) to distribute bears filled with honey and ask for donations for those with developmental disabilities. My husband and I were randomly paired up and after we introduced ourselves, proceeded to ring doorbells. We quickly realized we shared a similar sense of humor and had a lot to talk about. After handing out all our honey bears, we went back to the organizers and asked for more bears! We didn’t want the afternoon to end!
Thankfully he called me the next day and asked me out on our first date….to a Pat Benatar concert at Pershing Auditorium. He gave me his fraternity pin three months later, we became engaged on the one-year anniversary of our first date, and we were married in July of 1984. We celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary with a Caribbean cruise this past summer.
So…I have always told people that I met my “honey” on Honey Sunday!!
