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Dan & Paige Wheeler
Married: July 4, 1998

Dan and Paige Wheeler met at a Valley gym in 1993, where he was a personal trainer and she was the general manager. Though they started as co-workers, only time would tell that they were meant to be much more.

Dan, now the CEO of HR Betty, believes the key to their relationship is the fact that they began as best friends. “As our relationship started to progress, Paige had said ‘There’s no way we can work together and have a relationship.’ So, I said ‘Fine, I quit.’” After leaving his job at the gym, they continued dating and, eventually, married.

Paige purposely planned the wedding on July 4 so that their anniversary would always be memorable: “If we see fireworks in the sky and don’t remember, then there is a real problem,” she says. “My husband always says that it signifies the loss of our independence, so it’s kind of an anti-Fourth of July.”

With 11 years of marriage under their belts, the Wheeler’s children are the most important part of their lives. They enjoy spending time with their daughter, Ashten, 9, and son, Scott, 7, as much as possible. For example, Dan is heavily involved with coaching his kids’ sports teams. What’s the Wheelers’ secret to staying on course as a family? “We just live life as it comes at us and do what we want to do and just make sure that we’re constantly helping others and looking out for the kids,” Dan says.—C.A.