Manitou Weddings

	Mama ‘D’ and Jeff George Mama D & Jeff, met during the summer of 1998, Jeff was working next door at the Inn and helping out the tennis staff at Camp. Mama D, was working at camp on basketball. They became friends and acquaintances but no one would have thought that during the summer of 2002, they would fall in love and Jeff would propose to Mama D later on. In 2004, they tied the knot at camp on a beautiful June day. They exchanged their vows on the swim docks while their friends and family watched from the beach. Mama D and Jeff continue to work at Camp and the Inn and are full-time residents of McKellar. They have two wonderful children Hannah and Carter.
	Chantal Dalgliesh and Matt Brundage I will start by saying that I hate camping out under the stars and I hate tripping…I know it’s great, and at Manitou it’s one of our best and most popular programs, but it’s just not for me. I am a city boy and my cabin at camp is as rustic as I want to get. I mention this only because I want you now to be as surprised as I was then that the girl I fell in love with was in fact a tripper. It was the summer of 2000 when I met her. We started to spend more and more time together and I found that I missed her when she was away from camp on trip – I knew she felt the same when I went back to my cabin and found her sitting on the steps waiting for me just to let me know she was back in camp. In September she went to Trent University and I wisely followed her. We officially became a “couple” while at school and moved in together in May of that year. We finished Trent together and both got accepted to York (her for her Masters and me for my Bachelor of Education.) After five years of dating, I bought Chantal an engagement ring (with that summer’s camp pay I might add), proposed on one knee and she said yes (this story would be anti-climactic if she hadn’t). Mark and Jeff seemed very excited by my engagement, even offering to have Chantal back up to the camp so that we could have a staff wide engagement party/wedding for us. On September 16th 2006, we were married in Toronto. I am proud that four members of the Manitou director team as well as friends from camp were there to see me tie the knot to that beautiful girl I met on their beautiful shores. This summer will mark ten years since I met Chantal at Camp Manitou…thanks for the best decade a man could ask for. Love is indeed grand, as are you Manitou. Love Matt.
	Dayna Virag and Dan Temby Dayna & Dan met during pre-camp in 2001, Dan was on Ski staff and Dayna was on Dance. Although they spent a lot of time together and their eyes were on one another it wasn’t until their return in 2002, that they knew they would fall in love and get married. After the summer of 2002, Dan went back to Adelaide Australia which was home at the time and Dayna moved to Australia for the year to complete her degree in teacher’s college. In 2004, not only did Dan make Canada his new home when he and Dayna came back they announced that they would be getting married and did so on August 21, 2004.
	Jessica House and Jono Monkom Jono and Jessica officially met on June 22, 2005. Technically, they had been introduced the month before through email, and had been busy collaborating and planning out their summer together as Sophomore Unit Heads. Instantly they clicked and became inseparable. It wasn't long before they became the camp joke with their unit about they should get married, so it wasn't a surprise when they organized a marriage for them in front of the Sophomore Unit one Thursday morning as an Activity Hub. Jono and Jessica worked as Co-Unit Heads for 2 years before moving to Australia for a year. In 2008, they returned back to Canada and back to Camp Manitou, where on their three year anniversary, Jono proposed, and they announced it in front of the camp at Friday Night Fireside. Their first marriage took place nearly a year later, on July 22, 2009 in Australia, where they celebrated with their Australian family and friends, and their second marriage took place on August 22, 2009, in Toronto, to celebrate with their loved ones there. For this reason, and so many more, camp is such a special place to them.
	Rob Redden and Erin Stinson Rob and Erin met back in 1997. Rob worked at camp as a counselor on water-ski and Erin, was a member of gymnastics camp; which was a camp that came to Manitou to execute their program. While Rob was working at the ski program and Erin was at Manitou with gymnastics camp they met one night under the stars around a camp fire. After that season they parted ways and Rob went back to his home town of Sudbury and Erin went back to her home town of Barrie. In 1999, Rob reconnected with Erin and unfortunately Erin wasn’t able to make it back to Manitou that summer. In 2001, Erin came back to Manitou to work as the driver and Rob was a specialist on Ski and later became head. They quickly fell back in love and in 2003, Rob proposed to Erin on one of the majestic islands on Lake Manitou-Wabing over a picnic lunch. Rob and Erin, were later married at Camp Manitou, on a beautiful September day.
	David ‘Luigi’ Sheffe and Heather Drew David and Heather met at camp during a rental groups retreat weekend at camp, in the spring of 2004. After having the weekend of her life, Heather applied to work at camp that summer and came to camp as a Freshkid Counsellor - working at Arts and Crafts. David and Heather became a couple that summer, and remained together for most of that year while Heather went back to school at Dalhousie University. They always kept in touch and remained close. They parted ways and rekindled their relationship a few years later after being off and on for a while. They were married in December 2009.