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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Five years after they first met in the seasonal aisle of the Silverlake Bartell’s, located at 11012 19th Avenue SE in Everett, Molly and Jeff Cimball will renew their wedding vows in the store on Saturday, April 20 at 3:00 p.m.
Joined by nearly 40 of their friends and family, the couple’s pastor will officiate over the ceremony in the spot where they first met. Decorations on aisle 6A will include balloons and rose petals.
The Cimball’s date with destiny began on the day before Halloween in 1997 when Molly went to Bartell’s in search of some face paint for her three children.
“I was unable to find what I was looking for in the Halloween aisle. When I told an employee I couldn’t find the face paint I heard a voice behind me say that I didn’t need it because I was far too beautiful for that. I turned around and there he was,” she said.
The two single parents struck up a conversation and soon Molly was helping Jeff pick out a pumpkin carving kit for his 11-year-old son. Jeff left the store after he purchased the kit but returned a few minutes later to ask Molly out to lunch. She gave him her business card and told him to call her.
“I was having a hard time leaving even after she gave me her card. I had no sooner left the store for the second time when I went back inside to tell her that something was wrong with her business card--it didn’t have her home phone number,” said Jeff Cimball.
Two hours after they first met, Jeff called Molly and arranged to have lunch with her the next day. Seven months later they were married in a small outdoor ceremony in Lake Tahoe.
According to Molly, when she gave birth to the couple’s son Sammy in 1999 the employees of the Silverlake store dubbed him the “Bartell baby” due to the fact that she was in the store so frequently during her pregnancy.
“When it came time to decide where to renew our vows, Bartell’s seemed like a natural choice. After all, it is where we first met and we tend to spend a lot of our time shopping there--as our checkbook can attest,” said the mother of five.
“Jeff and Molly’s marriage marks a unique page in our company’s history. To our knowledge they will become the first couple in our 112-years of business to renew their vows in one of our stores,” said George D. Bartell, CEO and chairman.
Bartell Drugs is the nations’ oldest drugstore chain. The family-owned company owns and operates 50 stores in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties.
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