The Begining.
My name is Vanessa, and I am the one third of this web page! You might like to know how myself and Quentin met?
It is a not so complicated story that ultimately changed our lives. If you take yourself back to the release of the gift of
the "Dangerous" album in 1991, we can start there. I have a close friend who works in a local record store, here in
Christchurch, and I would visit him often and he would help me in my avid collecting of Michael. He began talking
to me about a new person who was coming into the store and buying allot of Michael's material. A few months passed by
and on May 9 1992 I was in the record store down by "J" for Jackson and I felt a tap on my shoulder, I turned around
there, standing before me was a young man. He immediately said to me "Hello, my name is Quentin, and the guy at
the counter said you are a Michael Jackson fan, I am too".
Upon this wonderfully original 'pick-up line', we started chatting. Michael's latest single was "In The Closet" and
started chatting about the remixes of 'Black or White', both of us connecting immediately and talking non stop about
our beloved Michael.
We left the store and kept chatting. A few days passed and we kept in touch through the telephone and the odd times
Quentin would come and visit me and we would loose ourselves in my Michael collection. Many a night was spent
in my bedroom of my parents home just talking about and watching Michael videos!!!
Our friendship quickly became something more once Quentin had asked me out on a date. Our feelings for one
another and the mutual love and respect for Michael was blossoming into something much more intense.
Exactly one year to the date,May 9 1993 Quentin surprised me by taking me out to dinner back to the restaurant
where we had had our first date! Unbeknown to me, but Q had a surprise in store!!
On that evening Quentin asked me to marry him, to become his wife!! Naturally I said yes!!!!
We planned our wedding during our 18 month engagement and at our engagement party Quentin's father even put
on one of our Michael masks and came up to us at the speeches and pretended to be Michael giving us his blessing!!
So, Michael is wherever we are, literally!!
We had the most magical meeting and feel so deeply blessed by our sudden meeting and that night in the local
store literally changed our whole lives!!
Please feel free to read on about our wedding day and what we have achieved in sharing our passion for Michael!!!
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