Detroit newlyweds wanted to capture their special day in a memorable way. They did so, but it wasn’t a walk in a park; more like a walk up a bridge. Chris Shreve and Taisha met four years ago on a blind date. “I thought that he was very sweet and kind of love, the kind of father that he was, the way he felt so passionate about his children. You know, as do I about my daughter,” said Taisha. Two years ago, on their way to visit the Sky Bridge at Boyne Mountain in Michigan, he proposed mid-air on a ski lift. “I knew that it was him for me,” she said. And on Friday, a civil wedding ceremony surrounded by family members, both American and Canadian. “I’m from Detroit and little backstory. My father and grandfather and all my father’s family are from Canada, so I’m actually half Canadian. The Shreeves is kind of a pretty large name of folks in Canada, Windsor, Chatham. And, you know, it’s kind of the history is, you know, the Underground Railroad, the slaves escaping from the South in the United States and then migrating into Windsor to get away from bounty hunters during the slave time,”said Chris Shreve. Then it was time to break a little sweat to take photos on the historic Gordie Howe International. “She’s got this big dress on and yeah, all of that. We had to walk a half a mile and then in makeup and hair, you know. So but she says keep it down. So we did it,” he said. “People were kind of videoing us and taking pictures and congratulating us. So people were going towards Canada and people were coming back from Canada and going into the U.S.” Chris scouted out the bridge the Monday prior to the wedding. “When I first got on the bridge, I was overwhelmed by the magnitude, the design. It felt kind of like a surreal roller coaster ride. It has a lot of artistic flavor.” The pair says despite a trade war between the two connecting countries, time will lead to strength and resilience. “I’m sure that the American people and the Canadian people, we have much love. I don’t think any of that will ever change or will ever change.”
