Latest Newaygo County Marriage License Applicants

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”-Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

A new beginning
When one (or more accurately two) decide to step into the union known as matrimony, it changes things.
I don’t care if you’ve lived together for years or met last week, it changes things.
Mostly for the better since the decision toward having a partner in life is generally not made lightly and the candidate who is going to take those vows with you was hopefully pretty well vetted beforehand.

And yet for many, change is a difficult hurdle. We all have kind of our own way we roll and now there is someone else to think of, perhaps another opinion weighing in and another’s feelings to consider. Way more so than when a couple is dating. Even more than a cohabitating twosome might have dealt with prior to putting a ring on it.

It’s indeed a new beginning. An opportunity to live your lives in a different way as a part of what one hopes is the most trusting relationship one will ever experience.
That’s kind of the definition of a healthy partnership. 
A solid and mutually satisfying marriage is built on compromise, an ability to be accountable when wrong, and a large dollop of forgiveness toward each other as well as ourselves.
When this is accomplished it comes with the knowledge that your partner is, when all is said and done, on your side and wants what’s best for you as well as the marriage.

So here’s to these couples who made their way to the Newaygo County Clerk’s Office to apply for legal licensure of their love for one another.
May the partnership be a long and fruitful one for both parties.
In the business world that’s called a win-win.

Shelby Seabrook, White Cloud & David Vandermate, White Cloud

Ashley Beurkens, Grand Rapids & Carl Dosch Jr., White Cloud

Caroline Price, Montague & Cory Vandermolen, Fremont

Matthew DeBoer, Newaygo & Stephanie Crowley,Newaygo

Ashley Campbell, Grant & Brendan Carroll, Grant

Charles Hesse, Grant & Jennifer Vokits Mudd, Muskegon

John Stempien, Coldwater & Nicole Gee, Mesick