In the coming months we will be introducing you to some of the staff at Ave Maria Press by sharing proposal, engagement, and wedding stories. We encourage you to share your own wedding story by filling out the “Our Wedding Story” section of your personal profile (see the Our Wedding Story section of the Together for Life Online Team profile for details) here at Together for Life Online. Naturally, we are starting this series of wedding stories with our CEO and publisher, Thomas Grady, who has been married for more than thirty years! Tom and Mary Grady’s marriage didn’t begin in the usual way—you know, with a traditional proposal. Instead, a thirty-year-old Mary Cichy popped the question at a restaurant bar, glass of bourbon in hand. “So, Grady, shall we do this?” she asked. “Yes, of course,” Tom responded. And with that exchange, Tom and Mary embarked on the typical adventure…
