Glenda, a Jacksonville Beach resident, and Rob, a then London resident, both met during a work trip to New York City where they soon fell in love with each other and with picking leaves in Bryant Park together.  The Atlantic Ocean couldn’t keep their love apart, and Rob has now relocated to Jacksonville Beach to continue their love story, where he also dropped to his knee one early morning. “Rob took me to Starbucks and persuaded me against my will as it wasn’t warm and I am not a morning person,” Glenda said, “to go down to the beach to take some landscape photos. He then proceeded to find a washed up message in a bottle that I opened to find a proposal message to me, and he got down on one knee then and there! He’d sneakily hidden the bottle in his camera bag.”

On the same beach they got engaged, they recently held their intimate wedding, exchanging vows very quickly before the tide rolled in too close for comfort after the ravages left behind by Hurricane Matthew a few days prior. Though right after the ceremony, their altar fell down in the tide, and the boardwalk got washed away, they laughed through the whole thing as they now will have great stories to tell from their wedding day.

“He always puts my wellbeing first,” Glenda gushed about Rob. “He is loyal and trustworthy. He understands my mind. He encourages me to be my best and keep striving. He is sometimes funny even though he thinks he is always funny.”  But she keeps laughing with him anyway.

“Glenda is a people person,” Rob said of Glenda. “I like how we meet new people and how she cares about people. She always goes out of her way to do something to help my stress, or something to make me laugh or just to show she cares. I like her brain – except with Words with Friends game where she beats me most of the the time – grrrrrrr.”

Hopefully now that they are married, Glenda will let Rob win a time or two.

Here are some of the favorites from their beautiful wedding day.

VENDORS:

CEREMONY & RECEPTION & CAKE: One Ocean Resort & Spa // MAKE UP & HAIR: Paulina Perez // VIOLIN & GUITAR: Wehner Weddings  // FLOWERS: Anything With Plants & Flowers // DJ: McGee Entertainment

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