LOVELOCK - Love was in the air over the Valentine weekend in Lovelock. One couple renewed their wedding vows in the Lover's Lock Plaza on Valentine's Day and another couple got engaged in a balloon on Friday.
Sam and Nancy Nobles from Grass Valley, Nev., renewed their marriage vows in the Lover's Lock Plaza on Valentine's Day. The couple will be married 24 years in June. They met at the Pendleton Round Up in Oregon many years ago when Sam was riding in the event and Nancy was a spectator. They say it was love at first sight.
What is their secret for a happy marriage?
"We share everything," said Nancy Nobles.
"We're partners," said Sam Nobles.
The couple shares the love of the outdoors; both are avid ATV riders and belong to riding clubs in Winnemucca and in Oregon, where they live part of the year. They both enjoy gold prospecting, and Sam considers himself an amateur geologist.
Sam told the story of how he knew Nancy was the one for him based on her former last name. In 1888 Sam's great-grandfather was married for the third time in Virginia City to a lady with the surname of Taylor. Just about 100 years later, Sam and Nancy marry in Virginia City. This is Sam's third marriage and Nancy's former last name was Taylor.
Our second love story comes from the skies above Lovelock. Brann Smith, owner and pilot of the Skydancer balloon, took his beloved Marie Klemn for the ride of her life, last Friday morning; also along for the ride was BOB 93.7 FM radio DJ, Jack Paper.
The proposal was broadcast live on the radio station as it happened above the town of Lovelock.
"It's the Lover's Aloft weekend so love was in the air," Paper later said of the proposal.
Klemn said she was surprised.
"We had talked about marriage before, but I had no idea he was going to ask now and it was going to be on the radio," she said.
Klemn and Smith have been friends for about nine years but have been a couple for only the last two years, they said.
Smith said that he had planned on popping the question in the balloon during the Lover's Aloft event but that the radio segment was not planned. Lover's Aloft organizer Pat Irwin arranged to have Paper fly in Skydancer after he heard about the intended proposal.
Smith offered Klemn the ring specially designed for her by his stepfather Mike Gannon 1,000 feet up in the air above Lovelock. The town can be seen below Klemn's newly ringed hand in a Facebook post made by Paper on the Bob FM Reno Facebook page.
The couple has no wedding date set as of yet. Will we be seeing a Lovelock wedding? The couple is not sure of that either.
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