From time to time our partners send us stories that are truly amazing. Here is one we received this morning:
Couple Together at Disney Long Before They Met
WALT DISNEY WORLD (CBS News, 6/17/10) – No one knows better than Alex and Donna Voutsinas that it’s a small world after all. A few days before their wedding they were astonished to find a 1980 family photo of little Donna (pink shirt) meeting Captain Smee at Walt Disney World – and incredibly little Alex in a stroller being pushed by his dad (black shirt) in the background. Alex said the couple found the photo at Donna’s parents’ house. “We were going through old family pictures looking for baby pictures of us for our wedding album and our video. And my wife pulled the picture out of her and her brothers at Disney World. Right away, the background caught my eye, it was my dad. Pushing me in a stroller. I couldn’t believe what I was looking at.” Donna said learning of the photo a week before her wedding gave her chills. Alex was born in Canada. Donna is from Florida. The couple officially met 14 years later when Donna started working at Alex’s family-owned hotel. They started dating in 1994. Alex and Donna went to Disney World several times on dates. “We went a lot,” Alex said. “A lot when we first started dating, we used to come a couple times a year, never knowing that picture existed.” Alex says he and Donna look at photos differently now. He explained, “I’m a detail-oriented guy anyways, and I usually look at the whole thing, but now we make jokes when we take our kids to Disney, I say, ‘There’s our future kids’ wives’.” As for their Disney connection, Alex and Donna said it’s not out of the question that they could renew their vows on their 10-year anniversary at the theme park.
Now isn’t that AMAZING?
