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Just ask Val Moline, who gathered for tea Friday morning with her sisters, sister-in-laws and friends to celebrate her wedding to a man she met through eHarmony.com.
“I’m feeling more blessed than I ever have in my entire life,” Moline told a group of 17 friends and relatives seated on the porch of her childhood home in Fergus Falls.
Moline, who marries Talmadge Hobbs of Atlanta, Ga., this afternoon at Church of the Nazarene, first joined the eHarmony dating service in early 2006, inspired by a radio interview with the service’s founder, Dr. Neil Clark Warren. The service’s users fill out a 436-question relationship questionnaire, designed to identify a person’s key characteristics, beliefs, values and skills - Moline said the questionnaire took her three to four hours to finish.
After completing the questionnaire, users receive two free reports: a personality profile, which describes the user’s personality type, and a compatibility profile, which outlines the type of person the user can expect to be compatible with long-term. According to the company’s website, eHarmony creates matches based on 29 dimensions necessary for compatibility and relationship success. After signing up for one of the service’s membership plans, users receive guidance on how to meet their matches.
Moline started communicating with Hobbs in April 2006 and the two exchanged pictures in May before Hobbs visited Fergus Falls on Memorial Day. Now Moline is getting married, the second Moline sibling to meet a spouse online — Nathan, one of Moline’s 11 brothers and sisters, met his wife of two years through eHarmony as well.
Friday’s gathering included guests from across the U.S. and Canada — sister-in-laws from Oregon and Iowa, and friends from Three Hills in Alberta, Canada, where Moline taught music at Prairie Bible Institute for several years. Moline now teaches at Morning Son Christian School.
Over tea, scones and sandwiches, Moline and her friends celebrated a match made in cyberspace, proof that sometimes love is just a click away.
By Lauren Radomski | The Daily Journal
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