Darren has blogged the news, Grant and Emma got married today. Congratulations to you both! Definitely a great couple. I'm sorry that I could make the wedding, but Nicola and I were celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary.
Five years ago Nicola and I were exchanging our wedding vows in Rye down on the Mornington Peninsula. We had actually met years earlier online in an IRC chat room. I was waiting for another friend to get online and Nicola logged in using the same alias. What followed was a somewhat confusing discussion.
I didn't realise until our second chat session that I wasn't talking to the person that I thought I was. After a few more chats and telephone calls we had become good friends and we decided that it was time to meet in person.
At the time I was living in Queensland and Nicola was in Melbourne so she caught a bus up and we met at Roma Street. Within a few weeks we were making plans for me to move down to Melbourne.
Our first place was a tiny two bedroom flat in Carnegie in the South Eastern suburbs. Eventually I popped the question and we got married.
The past five years has seen the birth of our beautiful daughter, who is now three and a half years old and of course we are now living here in Canberra.
Nicola - I know you are reading this, so if you don't know already, the last five years have been wonderful and I am looking forward to to spending the next five with you.