A Kiss, A Proposal and Life Happily Ever After in Plymouth

PLYMOUTH, MI – You may have seen the Recto family gathering around the fountain at Kellogg Park some time around their anniversary, April 28, every year and smiling for the camera.

It’s not because of the pretty backdrop — or not just because of it.

It’s the place where Jasper and Rachel Recto became engaged on Jan. 6, 2000, and where they had wedding photos taken about four months later.

The fountain a sort of metaphorical tether that holds them to the Plymouth and Canton communities.

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“He kissed me that night,” Rachel Recto told The Plymouth Observer. “The rest is history. We joke we can never leave Plymouth. We have so much history. It’s nice, though, it’s nice to have that.”

“He said, ‘I really like you as more than a friend,’ ” Rachel said. “It was very mutual.”

The next night, they went to see “Shakespeare In Love” at Penn Theatre, and the proposal followed.

Daughters Emerson, 15, a Plymouth High School freshman, and Avery, 13, a West Middle School seventh-grader, join their parents at the fountain every year for a photo.

» Julie Brown has the uplifting story on the family’s tradition on hometownlife.com.

Image credit: Todd Waller via Flickr / Creative Commons