Shine OnCalgary couple takes city bus to their wedding, nine years after meeting on it
Why rent a limo when you can take the bus?
That's exactly what Calgary couple John Ross and Heather Cormack did, hopping on a city bus that took them to their wedding ceremony on Saturday.
The "out of the box" transportation choice wasn't just a cost-saving one, it was a sentimental one: they met on the Calgary Transit Route 21 bus nine years ago.
"Calgary Transit is a huge part of what brought us together as a couple, as a family and where we are today," Ross tells the Calgary Sun.
"One day I got on the bus and there were these beautiful set of blue eyes and I just fell in love with them," Cormack recalls. "And so for a few months I’d make sure he was on the bus and give him a quick little flirty glance."
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After three months, Ross finally sat down beside her. Soon they were spending 20 minutes together each morning, chatting on the bus as it took them to their respective jobs.
"It got to the point that I would get up in the morning and I’d make two to-go cups of coffee and she’d get on and I’d have the coffee for her," says Ross. "It was great, it really did make mornings a little bit better."
"It blossomed from there," Cormack tells Metro Calgary.
The couple shared their first kiss at the Whitehorn C-Train bus loop, where they said goodbye almost every morning for four years.
They are now parents to two little girls: Alexis, 3, and Kyla, 1.
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"If we hadn’t had transit we probably wouldn’t have met," Ross said on his wedding day.
Last August, Vancouver couple Nina Schmidt and Jarred Greff didn't just take the bus to their wedding, they tied the knot on the bus where they first met.
"It's the symbol for our love," Schmidt told CBC News last year. "Every time we think of the bus story, we are really thankful that that happened."
On the day they met in April 2012, Schmidt almost missed the bus, and Greff didn't plan on taking it. And when they did meet, they neglected to exchange numbers. Schmidt had to track down Greff at his work later that day.
As part of I Love Transit week in Vancouver, Schmidt and Greff exchanged vows on a TransLink bus. They told their wedding guests to gather at a specific bus stop so they could board the bus and witness and simple ceremony.
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"It was our dream wedding," Schmidt told the Vancouver Province. "There is never a week we don't talk about our first meeting on the bus. It’s just so random."
In October of last year, a British husband and wife who met at a bus stop were gifted with the sign, timetable and red bench from where they met after city council voted to relocate that specific stop.
"We've now been married for three years but I'll never forget how we met and it's wonderful that we can keep a little bit of our history forever," said Aly Hussein, who first saw his wife, Michala, as she waited for the bus outside his cafe bar.
Where did you meet your significant other? Any good falling-in-love-on-transit stories out there?
