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Eric & Glynis Legrand
Married: Dec. 10, 1998

 

It was hardly love at first sight for Eric and Glynis Legrand, owners of Downtown Chandler’s Urban Tea Loft. The couple first met in 1991, when they worked together at an insurance company in Virginia. “She was looking at me like I was the strangest person,” Eric recalls. Glynis concurs, referring to the red cardigan, glasses and tie that Eric would sport daily: “He looked like a nerd.”

Though the Legrands took some time to click, they were married seven years later. Or as Eric puts it: “The love factor took over.” After getting engaged outside the south lawn of the White House, the couple started planning their wedding for March 1999. When Eric and Glynis realized they could marry as soon as they obtained their marriage certificate, they excitedly made a wedding appointment at the courthouse that very day—three months before their intended wedding day.

About four years after exchanging vows, the couple’s devotion to one another was tried when the now-healthy Glynis was diagnosed with breast cancer. “You’re tested sometimes on how far you’d go for people, how much you love people,” Eric says. “Back then, I realized that I’m willing to go the distance for this person. I love this person so much that I was willing to switch places with her.” The Legrands’ love has only flourished since then.

Today, the couple adores spending time with their 10-year-old daughter, Zhayer. And though, as business owners their days are packed, they do their best to squeeze in a date-night movie.—M.L.