Couple recalls one-of-a-kind romance, wedding
July 17, 2012 by admin
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He says she’s beautiful, and her cheeks rose as she smiles. Her blue eyes flicker as she recalls how “super cute” he was when they initial met during a skating rink.
He grins as he talks about how good of a prepare she is. Her honeyed potato souffle is his favorite, so many so that he brings uninformed pecans and honeyed potatoes from south Georgia for her to make it, even yet it takes her a week to whip adult mixed batches.
She gazes lovingly during him when articulate about how many they adore spending time with any other, possibly it’s sitting on a porch during their Acworth home or carrying cooking during a internal restaurant.
Jeff and Ava Couey correlate as if they are newlyweds, though currently they are celebrating their 13th matrimony anniversary. As they navigate a ups and downs of marriage, family and business, their adore is steady.
Walk into any Sparkles Family Fun Center and we will see kids skating and dancing, personification games during a arcade or gearing adult for laser tag. When Jeff walks into one of a 4 Sparkles locations, he sees a legacy.
“I grew adult in a business,” he said. His parents, Leita Couey and a late Albert Couey, and uncle, a late Carl Couey, got into a drum course business in 1959 when they non-stop a South Cobb Roller Rink in Mableton. The name has altered and Sparkles locations are now in Kennesaw, Hiram, Gwinnett and Smyrna.
In further to a business, Jeff is a championship skater. In 1976, he was comparison to paint a U.S. in a universe accommodate for indoor rolling skating and won a bullion medal. Decades later, he would win a heart of a lady named Ava.
“It was adult night,” Ava pronounced as she removed a night she met Jeff during a drum course in a late 1990s.
When her favorite DJ changed from a Smyrna skating course to Hiram, Ava and her friends followed him. It was during a DJ counter where Jeff and Ava were strictly introduced.
“We would see any other in passing, though a crony of cave introduced us,” Ava said.
“Wow,” was Jeff’s initial suspicion when he saw her. “It was awesome.”
The integrate antiquated for scarcely dual years. On Valentine’s Day in 1999, Jeff and Ava went to cooking during a Sun Dial Restaurant during a Westin Hotel in downtown Atlanta.
Flowers were watchful for them during their table. In a fit of giggles, Ava said, “When we initial sat down, we usually suspicion all a tables had flowers. It didn’t emergence on me that he had them positioned there. He finally asked me, ‘What did we consider about a flowers?’ They were pretty.”
They talked and ate while a waiters and surrounding diners, already wakeful of what was about to happen, watched. Jeff said, “I told her, ‘If we marry me, afterwards we get to movement all a time.’”
This would not be a initial matrimony for possibly of them, though it would be a kinship no one would ever forget. Both Jeff and Ava had — and still have — and apparent adore of skating, so Jeff suspicion it would be a good thought to not usually get married during Sparkles, though to contend their “I dos” on wheels.
“Jeff likes to be a core of attention,” Ava said, playfully teasing her husband. He shrugs his shoulders, saying, “She desired to skate. She grew adult skating all a time.” Of their Jul 17, 1999, nuptials, Jeff said, “I wanted something different.”
To contend Ava was wavering would be an understatement: “I was unequivocally shaken about a dress and falling. we pronounced to Jeff, ‘All it’s going to take is one time for a movement to strike a chair, and we are eating a floor!’”
The integrate managed to stay on their feet, even by their dance to Shania Twain’s “From This Moment.” The pastor, however, took a brief during a operation dinner.
Jeff pronounced Ava is all a male could wish in a wife: “She’s a good wife, she’s a good person. A good mother. She is pleasing inside and out. We suffer all together.”
Ava pronounced Jeff’s suggestion and adore for a Lord are her favorite things about him: “He’s unequivocally encouraging. He doesn’t get down. He’s always there to lift we adult — with everybody, not usually me.”
Today, skating is still a partial of a couple’s lives. Jeff and Ava are not usually life partners, though business partners as well.
“There’s so much, so many details. It’s 24/7,” Ava said. “We do unequivocally good during it. There are tools of a business Jeff takes caring of, and those are his strengths. Then there are things we oversee, and it blends.”
Ava recalls how Jeff says a many successful skating comforts are a father and mom team. However, a business can be overwhelming. Ava said, “There’s not a lot of downtime unless we leave town.”
And get divided they do: Whether it’s dining during a internal grill or roving to Napa Valley, a Coueys value their time together and make doing so a priority.
They also suffer spending time with their family. Both have children from prior marriages. Jeff’s sons are Michael, 29, and Clint, 23, and Ava’s son is Jacob, 24. Their grandchildren, Miley, 1½ and Caiden, 2½ will shortly have another playmate, as another granddaughter is on a way.
“Blended marriages are a work in progress, though we work together,” Ava said. “That’s all that matters.”
With children, business and other occurrences in life, Jeff pronounced some couples tend to forget about any other. However, he pronounced putting faith first, afterwards your spouse, will assistance all tumble into place.
“When I’m down, she rises me adult and vice-versa,” Jeff said. “Every day is a good day. We do all we can to make it a good day.”
