Alberta newlyweds get exclusive gift from Calgary Flames

An Okotoks couple acquired a memorable wedding ceremony reward from the Calgary Flames.

“I have been a Flames fan for 38 years now,” stated Stephen Wong. “I grew up with the Flames. My dad was an enormous Flames fan. All of us performed hockey Friday nights. Hockey was large in our household.”

Throughout Stephen and bride Shannon’s latest wedding ceremony at D’Arcy Ranch Golf Membership, his eyes have been glued to a TV broadcast of the Flames recreation.

“It was a recreation night time,” stated Shannon, “and Stephen and I had talked about it as a result of he not often misses a recreation. A lot of our relations and a few the bridesmaids and groomsmen have been additionally followers, so he is like, ‘Properly, may we have now the sport on within the background?’

“So throughout dinner, that they had the massive TV and so they had the sport going with no quantity, and you might all the time inform when the Flames scored as a result of the pinnacle desk would cheer. That was our wedding ceremony.”

Shannon was comfortable to see Stephen in his component at their wedding ceremony.

“I wasn’t a hockey fan to start out with,” she stated, “however he is educating me about hockey, so I am beginning to take pleasure in it as properly.

“So it wasn’t like, you recognize, the begrudging spouse sitting there. I did not watch the sport a lot in the course of the wedding ceremony, however I did watch it with him on the honeymoon.”

Moreover watching the Flames recreation all through the marriage, Stephen made positive that the couple’s wedding ceremony cake additionally had a Blasty brand on it.

D’arcy Ranch Golf Membership basic supervisor Tim Watt talked about Stephen’s superfan standing to his buddy Bob Libin, son of Calgary Flames proprietor Alvin Libin.

To point out their appreciation, the crew gifted the couple a signed Matthew Coronato jersey.

Stephen was ecstatic concerning the reward, and he reminisced about his historical past with the crew.

“We had hockey video games on the Saddledome once I was a child, all types of stuff. Harvey the Hound got here out for the Christmas get together, the Flames have been all over once I was rising up for us.

“This implies so much, that is large. That is fairly candy.”

Stephen and Shannon are comfortable to see the crew present like to its followers.