Valentine’s Day is here and our thoughts are turning to love -- and our love of love, and our love of love of love. You get the idea.
In the spirit of the holiday, we asked our anchors and reporters to share their favorite engagement and wedding photos. With those cherished images, we assembled a digital wedding album of sorts, an archive of joyful pictures commemorating the most romantic moments in their lives. Turn the pages, or, more aptly, scroll below, for big smiles, surprise proposals, stunning wedding dresses, snazzy suits and hearts over-brimming with love -- lots and lots of love.
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Keith Garvin and his wife Lisa
“Lisa and I met in college at the University of Nevada. We had a psychology class together, which led to a study group, which led to me walking her to her next class on a daily basis, which eventually led to four daughters and more than 26 years of marriage at this point! I proposed to her in the snow under a tree outside the building where we had that psychology class together.”
Randy McIlvoy and his wife Tammy
“Tammy and I met through mutual friends while attending Sam Houston State. Began dating as juniors in 1987, graduated and got engaged in 1989 and then got married on Feb. 17 in 1990.”
Bill Spencer and his wife Veronica
Robert Arnold and his wife Jennifer
“We met at a house party held by a mutual friend. Tanya Hayes was the 10pm producer here and thought Jen and I would hit it off. She had a party and just let us meet each other. The next week we went out and have been together ever since.”
Lisa Hernandez and her husband Joel
“Proposal story! He’s a huge Goo Goo Dolls fan and was like, hey there’s a private concert in Greenway Plaza. I got tickets. We get there, they play two songs, then after their third and final song, the lead singer Johnny Rzeznik says ‘this one’s for Lisa,’ and I was like, ‘Oh dang there must be another Lisa here because this famous person ain’t talkin’ to me!’ Anyway, at the end of the song Joel got down on one knee – then he dropped the ring because he was so nervous – then I said ‘yes.’ We’re such dorks. That was in June of 2013. We got married on Sept. 20, 2014 at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church here in Houston. You’ll notice in the group shot that all the groomsmen, my groom, and even the pastor have on Jordans. My husband LOVES Air Jordans so we ordered everyone a pair, even my 2-year-old twin nephews. The groom’s cake was of Lambeau Field (Joel’s a Wisconsin native and a HUGE Green Bay Packers fan). Our reception was at the Rice Hotel downtown. Our first song was ‘Ribbon in the Sky’ by Stevie Wonder. We honeymooned in Turks and Caicos.”
Anavid Reyes and her husband Rafael
“My husband and I are high school sweethearts, but we actually met when we were in second grade! On a beautiful summer night while vacationing in the Bahamas, he got down on one knee and I said ‘yes’! We tied the knot in 2018 in Austin, Texas on Lake Travis.”
Khambrel Marshall and his wife Debbie
“We were engaged in Detroit in April while I was on my job interview for Detroit station WDIV. I moved there in June. She moved there in late August and we got married in our apartment in Farmington Hills, Michigan, on Sept. 1 with our immediate families, Best man, matron of honor and the pastor. We have a VERY small reception at the nearby Holiday Inn.”
Frank Billingsley and his partner Kevin
“We met at JR’s in Montrose in August 1995, so when it became legal in New York to get married we more or less popped the statement that we were doing it, as opposed to popping the question! Of course, August is hurricane season and there was no way I could plan a wedding for August so we chose Dec. 12, 2012.”
Re’Chelle Turner and her husband Faison
“I was totally surprised when my husband proposed to me! At the time, I was working in Little Rock and he was in Dallas. I visited him during the Christmas break, and he told me we were hanging out with friends from college. We walked around Kylde Warren park a few times and I kept asking him when we were meeting up with friends. I looked down for a second and my husband was on one knee asking me to spend the rest of my life with him! It was a total surprise! I had no idea! We were surrounded by friends and family. It was a special moment I will never forget! A photographer and videographer captured the special moment on camera! He proposed on our seventh anniversary!”
Haley Hernandez and her husband Frank
“The first is me on my very magical engagement in Sonoma, Cali, and my fiancé actually managed to keep the whole thing a surprise! The second photo is us on our wedding day in Dripping Springs, Texas, in 2018.”
“My husband proposed in Sonoma, California. It was a total surprise! We had a trip planned for later that summer and he had misled me to think the later trip would be where he proposed (we even planned to look at rings when we got home from Cali) so he was pretty slick! He had already hacked into my Pinterest and knew what kind of ring to buy. I was totally shocked because he is naturally very romantic so being on the coast in wine country didn’t really clue me in that I was about to be engaged!”
Mario Diaz and his wife Katie
“From a chance meeting at a professional event to our own for certain event with loved ones a couple of years later just outside of New York City.”
Ari Alexander and his wife Ashley
“We met on The League dating app. We went to Anvil for our first date, Pappadeaux’s for our second date and I made her veal piccata for our third date. I was very nervous to propose even though she pretty much knew it was coming. We had a photoshoot set up in the morning in Santorini and I rented a rooftop of a hotel in Imerovigli, and I think as soon as she saw the spot she knew.”
Lauren Kelly and her husband Gabriel
“Gabriel and I actually met through the radio station when I worked at MIX 96.5 in 2017. My co-host at the time was Sarah Pepper, and she originally met Gabriel’s brother in our work building gym. He was in a long-term relationship, but he thought Gabriel and I would be a great match. Once Gabriel came to the studio, our first date was the start of a love story and our listeners got to hear it play out! We’ve been together every day since meeting that day in 2017.”