My name is Bill Farrant, I live in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Originally from Calgary, Alberta, I joined a large multi-national corporation as a service technician installing and repairing their large range of equipment in Edmonton. After nine years there I was transferred to Vancouver, which as far as I am concerned is one of the most beautiful places in the world. Surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and rain forest covered mountains, the summers are tempered and winters warmed by the ocean currents, keeping the area green and relatively warm while most of the rest of North America is covered in snow. For me, life really got started when I hit thirty. I finally got off my butt and started to do all the things I had always dreamed of. I got my SCUBA diving certification, took up skydiving, and worked up the guts to leave a job I was good at but had grown to hate. I then worked with Telephoto Technologies, who supply most of the horse racing tracks in Canada with television production services. I worked at the Hastings Park and Fraser Downs tracks where we did five hour shows four days a week, broadcast live in-house and to satellite locations throughout North America. I was the director of the show at Hastings Park, having worked my way through positions as camera operator, videotape operator and editor. 

I had never been married and thought I was destined to remain single, I quit looking for a mate years ago and had been happy as a single man. But once again, fate stepped in, and in 1999 I discovered the love of my life, Norma. I always thought I was happy being by myself, but now know how much better life can be with the right person to share your life with. Norma is everything I always dreamed of in a woman, the one I didn't think existed. Her personality is the perfect compliment to my own, a woman who enjoys the quiet life, is deeply romantic and has a great sense of humour. Many women claim they want romance, tenderness and intimacy, but Norma is the first woman I have ever met who really does, our meeting and courtship were like a fairytale.

Unfortunately Norma lived many hours away from me, so it meant a lot of traveling and long hours on the phone. We were engaged on Christmas day and  once again, at 40, I decided it was time for a major change in my life. Near the end of May 2000 I quit my job and moved back to Alberta where I was born, to be Norma's husband. I longed for the family life and have moved back to a nice home in a quiet area, two dogs, two cars in the garage and a hot barbeque in the back yard on warm summer evenings with a fire to relax in front of.

We decided to have a quiet and intimate ceremony on May 29 on board a yacht on Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver. Because of the distances involved, we didn't think it was really feasible to invite family, so just a few of my closest friends, those I was leaving behind in Vancouver attended our wedding. It was a beautiful sunny day out on the water with the mountains of North Vancouver on one shore and downtown Vancouver on the other, views that we learned to love as our own love grew during her visits.

We spent a few more days in the Lonsdale Quay Hotel, overlooking the water we had been wed on and saying goodbye to friends, then slowly made our way home with stops on Vancouver Island, at a campsite in the interior of B.C. where we were adopted by a 5 week old pup, who has become our second dog, (we called him Moonie - short for honeymoon) and chartered a 12 person houseboat with an 8 person hot tub for just the 2 of us. It was a wonderful and romantic time, the likes of which I never expected to experience.

Now we're pretty much settled in at our home in Red Deer. I'm  happier than I have ever been in my life. Norma is the woman I waited for and dreamed of all my life, and the one I look forward to spending all those backyard evenings with in front of a fire for the rest of my life.