Prima and I met on the internet in the spring of 2001. You can read more about that on the "Our Story" page. I went to Thailand for two weeks to meet her in June. During that two weeks we decided we would get married.
 Prima came from Thailand to meet me in Chicago on January 1st 2002. We had a wonderful drive home, there was lake effect snow falling gently and it was her first time driving in snow. we had a quiet dinner in a small restaurant somewhere between Chicago and Grand Rapids.
 We decided not to hesitate getting married. We decided we would have  the pastor from my parents church marry us, that was on January 9. Then we decided to planned a formal wedding at a later date. This first wedding was small, Prima, my parents, myself and of course the pastor in the pastors office at Richmond Reformed Church.
 Our second wedding was
This is a movie of our wedding, if you want to see it and don't have a high speed connection it would be better to download it and play it on your computer, Right click here to download a higher quality version of the movie.
 

These are pictures from our first wedding, January 9 2002

 
Formal Wedding April 26 2002