PHOTOS: 75 couples marry, renew vows at Loveland Ski Area this Valentine’s Day
Despite blowing snow, the 32nd Annual Marry Me and Ski for Free Valentine’s Day event at Loveland Ski Area was a lovefest
The Colorado Sun
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LOVELAND SKI AREA — Seventy-five couples gathered on Valentine’s Day to marry or renew their vows in a snowy, mountaintop meadow during the annual mass wedding at Loveland Ski Area.
The couples kissed, hugged and then clicked into their skis, making tracks through freshly fallen snow glistening in rays of sunshine. For 12 partners, it was their first ski run as a married couple.
Tim and Rita Ryan have been together for seven years. They had seen the mountaintop mass wedding on television before and this year they thought “why don’t we make this happen,” Tim Ryan said, just after promising himself to Rita.
“As much as we wanted to do a wedding with friends and family, that takes too much planning and we don’t have time to do that right now,” Tim said. “So this was just perfect.”
Tim is a regular at Loveland, but Rita was on skis for the third time in her life on Valentine’s Day. “Doing something only in Colorado,” eclipsed any jitters she had about skiing into Forest Meadows to say her vows.
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Tim and Rita Ryan, center, kiss after reciting their vows on Valentine’s Day at Loveland ski area. During the 32nd annual mass wedding, 12 couples got married and 63 renewed their vows.
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Robin Thomas, right, adjusts the tuxedo of her husband, Allen, prior to the Marry Me and Ski Free event. The Denver couple have been married for 32 years.
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Tom and Kathy Glenn put on candy rings handed to them by their children prior to the mass wedding at noon. The Front Range couple have been married for 32 years and the idea to renew their vows during the Valentine’s Day event was sparked by their children.
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Cathy and Sean Cayton, of Colorado Springs, kiss after renewing their vows.
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Becca and Erin Roosa kiss ahead of the event. The couple got married four weeks ago in Hawaii.
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Jenny Busby-Benson, left, and her husband, Doug Benson, get married during the Marry Me and Ski Free annual lovefest at Loveland.
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