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Apparently he took customer service very
seriously, as he eventually took my mom’s
advice and asked me on a date.
;ree and a half years later, we tied the
knot. Our ;rst joint purchase? A Costco Executive Membership.—Whitney and Stephen
Bobbitt, Blue Springs, Missouri
AFTER DATING FOR nearly seven years,
my boyfriend, Je;, suggested we ;nally go
ring shopping. Our close friends recommended Costco. Lo and behold, there was the
ring—an emerald-cut diamond solitaire in a
pavé setting. And it was in our price range! I
tried it on and it ;t perfectly. It was “the one.”
A couple months went by and then, in late
June, Je; asked if I wanted to see if the ring at
Costco was still there. “If you still love it, then
we’ll buy it,” he said.
ALTHOUGH MY HUSBAND and I pur-
chased a number of items from Costco for
our wedding day, the most unusual
thing I found while shopping at
Costco was my groom …
When I was away at college, I would come
home occasionally on weekends and it never
failed that my mom would ask me to go with
her to Costco at some point during my visit.
Lana and
Je; Peterson
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