Blind Couple Weds After Guide Dogs Bring Them Together

Last time we checked in with Claire
Johnson, 50, and Mark Gaffey, 51, they
were engaged and patiently awaiting the
arrival of their wedding.
After meeting each other at a two-week
guide dog training course in March 2012,
the couple officially tied the knot in
Stoke-on-Trent, England, on Saturday,
BBC News reported.
The love affair began at the training
course when their Labrador-retrievers,
Venice and Rodd, couldn’t stop playing
and nuzzling together.
“The trainers said that they were the
love and romance of the course,” Gaffey
told DogHeirs. “And they brought us
together.”
When Gaffey and Johnson, who are both
blind, found out that they lived only 1.5
miles apart from each other, they
started to meet for dates with their pups
because they “couldn’t bear” to seperate
the dogs, Johnson told BBC.
Since it was their dogs who originally
brought them together, it only made
sense that they would be the ring
bearers and guide the couple down the
aisle.
“I have no doubt that our guide dogs
brought us together and helped me find
my true love,” Johnson told Metro. “Much
like our two guide dogs, we really are
best friends and soul mates.”