Love Unexpected by Mbo


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The Challenge: (A true story) Gerhard Spitz and Martina Steindorf, both of Germany, were married in a Las Vegas casino recently in a "masked wedding." The pair were the winners of a radio contest in Germany where listeners matched the most compatible and most popular couple. The couple had only spoken once before the wedding, when the groom proposed to the bride on-air before they were flown to Las Vegas for their wedding. At the ceremony, the couple were masked until they were pronounced husband and wife. The groom then kissed the shaking bride, saying "It's fate that we are joined." The happy kids honeymooned in California, where the groom said "We're going to get acquainted."

Love Unexpected by Mbo

I thought it such a foolish thing, but I just could not resist
It was certainly the most uncommon way to find the love I'd missed
So I put myself into it, though quite a joke to me
But I never dreamed in a million years how serious it would be

They said they'd found the girl for me, and how it made me smile
For there hadn't been one on my face for such a long long while
They told me a little about her, that she was beautiful to see
And though I'd never met her, I felt she was the one for me

So what had started as a joke had now become quite real
I'd found I was in love with her--how bright it made me feel
She became my inspiration--she was why I'd worked so long
And I knew down in my heart the way I felt could not be wrong

They let me speak to her just once, and oh! for pity's sake
I could not get the words out, and my hands began to shake
"Will you...will you marry me?" I then heard myself say
And when she said "Yes" I felt the sun smile down on me that day

And so before the masses, sightless they bring us now
They perform the ceremony, we seal it with a vow
We then were given back our sight--and the sight of her made me sing
I took her trembling hand in mine and then slipped on the ring

I took her in, for all she was, her beauty and her mind
And she said she'd felt the same way about me all the time
Then I said "So here we are, with a love no one can sever
After such an agonizing wait, I've come home to you forever."