Ronald and Joy Jenkins

Approximate Date of the Photo
June 3, 2011

Where in Balboa Park was this photo taken
Spreckels Organ Pavilion

Share your Love Story
Sixteen Years, Two Marriages & Five Children later we finally made it right! Meeting as teenager's with time and distance between us we never thought we would ever be husband and wife. Our story began in the summer of 1995 in the city of San Diego were I worked as a youth counselor. While working I befriended a boy that would tell me and Ronald the same lie that forever changed our lives. One July morning while the Rec kids had free play our mutual friend came to me and said "my friend wants to meet you." I walked outside with him and saw the cutest boy with the biggest smile looking at me. We stared at each other smiling for a good two minutes before saying anything to one another. Once we got through the butterflies and began using our words our relationship grew into what it is today. Even though years and distance put a strain on how often we saw each other it never changed the love we shared.

In the summer of 2000 we went our separate ways marrying other people and starting families of our own. In the fall of 2007 we met each other again and all the love we had so many years ago came flooding back to the surface. On Valentine's Day 2011 my first love proposed to me so it was only natural to take our engagement pictures in the city where our love started. In the Summer of 2011 we became husband and wife and the rest is history.


Name of the Photographer
Richard Cole