Our Story
Being invited to our wedding, you probably already know “Our Story”. With that said, not everyone on the guest list may know our whole story.
I believe when I fall in love with you it will be forever.
Tiffani and I first met at Hostopia, a small website company in Miramichi, New Brunswick. At the time, we were both in other relationships; yes, the now happy couple had a few things that needed to end before something new could begin!
After a few months of innocent flirting, I finally got the courage to make the first (but not last) move. I sent Tiffani a Google Map link to the house I had recently purchased and asked if she would like to visit sometime. She agreed and we had a wonderful one-on-one talk one early morning. Things continued to blossom from there and finally it came time to pick a day for the first date.
On July 4, 2012, we went to see “The Amazing Spider-Man”. A first date lead to a second, which lead to a third, forth, and so on; a relationship had begun, even though neither of us knew what the future held.
After one year of dating, we took a trip down a river – a literal river. We went tubing one afternoon, meaning we spent 3 hours on a river with no escape from one another. Presumably, the idea of children had been on Tiffani’s mind for a while; this was not the case for me. When we started dating, we both had agreed that children were not in our future; neither of us wanted any. That apparently had changed for Tiffani, as she broached the topic mere minutes after setting sail in the tiny tubes. I, reasonably so, responded not so excitedly – I mean, come on, we both agreed no children, so where was this coming from?! Some frantic discussions ensued but by the end of their 3 hour trip together we planned to have a baby.
I wrote an email to myself the day I found out Tiffani was pregnant. “On October 3rd, 2013, my life changed forever. Tiffani called me at work at 11:55am and told me that she was pregnant. I'm going to be a father.” Becoming a father was the greatest and scariest thing I had ever done, and something I may never have experienced if it wasn’t for my partner Tiffani.
Carter Louis Stephen MacIsaac was born on May 9, 2014 at 1:35pm; he weighed 7lbs, 2.8ozs. This new life became our world; a new baby for a happy couple. With a brand new little one under our roof some challenges arose and sleepless nights became the regular but through it all we stayed true to ourselves and kept our love strong.
A few years past and I decided I wanted a second baby. So, another discussion happened, this time it was Tiffani who had to agree; she did and on September 17, 2016 at 10:59am, Ethan Tommy Anthony MacIsaac was born on - he weighed 6lbs, 9.0ozs. New challenges faced us but again we did it together. We both wondered how parents could ever love their second child as much as they loved their first but we quickly learned that love is exponential and Ethan proved it. With loving this new baby we didn’t lose or diminish any of the love we had for Carter, or for each other, we just learned to love more.
After a month of us all living under one roof, I decided it was time to make this little family official. On October 26, 2016, I (with the aid of my potential-sister-in-law Elissa) had a lunch with my potential-father-in-law to ask for Tiffani's hand in marriage. Louis and I had a lovely meal and at the end he gave me his approval; the "potential" sister and father-in-laws were now my "future" sister and father-in-laws!
Then November 20, 2016 came — it’s the whole reason you’re reading this story. In front of the beautiful family the two of us had created, I knelt down on one knee and asked “Tiffani, would you do me the honor of being my wife?” Luckily for me, and for anyone excited to go down south in November 2018, she said “Yes”.
That brings us to now – a wedding is happening and we couldn’t be happier to share this part of the story with our amazing family and friends! Stevie Wonder sang the immortal words, “I believe when I fall in love this time it will be forever”; a truer statement has never been uttered when we reflect on ourselves as a couple.
