Josh Melnyk and Megan Wolfe in Saskatoon with their blended family. From left, Jacob Melnyk, 2, Megan, Josh, Hunter Melnyk, 2, Arty Wolfe, 7, Haydn Wolfe, 6, and Tanea Melynk, 11.
Photograph by: Submitted photo-- Kari Shep, Submitted photo-- Kari Shep
At age 10, Megan Wolfe began cutting photos out of magazines and concocting the perfect man: eyes from this one, hair from that one, and so on.Four years ago, as she sat in a doctor’s office in Saskatoon waiting for an appointment for one of her kids, that man, Josh Melnyk, walked through the door.
“I’ll never forget that moment,” Wolfe says. “Josh was identical to my dream man. I was sitting in this crowded waiting room and people were talking around me, and the only one I could see is him.
“You know you are in love when something like that happens.”
Melnyk, now 32, was there to pick up an inhaler, so his appointment was over quickly — but he kept making up excuses to return until he plopped down beside the bright young woman with big blue eyes and chatted her up.
“Until then, I had given up,” Wolfe says. “I really didn’t think there was anyone out there for me.”
On Wednesday, Megan Wolfe, and Josh Melnyk, who now have twin boys 2 1/2 years old and three other children between them, are getting married in Edmonton, in a ceremony hastily put together by family, friends and generous strangers.
Diagnosed in February with stomach cancer, Megan, 28, recently learned she likely has a year to live.
“I don’t want the children to remember Megan in a hospital bed,” Melnyk’s cousin Shantell Scragg says, seated in her living room in Edmonton, boxes of donated children’s clothes and toys, at her feet. “I want them to remember her as a princess on her wedding day.
“She and Josh are so, so much in love.”...Continue reading...
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