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Candace Cameron Bure's Marriage with Husband Valeri Is Straight Out of a Hallmark Movie
Candace Cameron Bure stars in the Hallmark Christmas movie A Shoe Addict’s Christmas, playing a woman whose struggles to find love and a fulfilling career come to an unexpected head when she’s accidentally locked in a department store on Christmas Eve. When a guardian angel appears to her, she ends up revisiting her own past, present and future Christmases, and comes to some surprising conclusions about her life—and her relationship with her neighbor (Luke McFarlane).
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In real life, the 42-year-old actress has been married to her Russian-born husband Valeri Bure for more than 20 years. Here’s everything you need to know about their love story.
The couple were introduced by Candace’s ‘Full House’ co-star.
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Dave Coulier, who played Joey Gladstone in the long-running ABC sitcom, introduced his co-star—then Candace Cameron—to her future husband, although inadvertently. According to Bustle, Dave was taking part in a charity hockey game in 1995, and invited the show’s entire cast to watch the game. Candace saw Valeri on the ice, and was immediately attracted to him, according to an interview with Huffington Post. When the pair started talking, it turned out that Valeri was a fan of Full House, and the couple went on their first date the very next day. Valeri later gave Dave a signed hockey stick as a gift, with a note that read, “Thanks for Candace.”
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The couple married on June 22, 1996, and have three children. Their daughter Natasha was born in 1998, and their two sons, Lev and Maksim, were born in 2000 and 2002.
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Jesus is “the backbone” of their marriage.
In a 2018 interview with People, Candace opened up about the importance of faith in her marriage. “The reality is, the glue for us is Jesus,” she said. “It’s the Bible. You know, when there are arguments or we’re compromising, it’s always like, ‘Well, let’s just go back to the Bible.’ It’s the foundation for us. So it’s not about winning or losing, but doing this journey together.”
In her 2013 book Balancing It All: My Story of Juggling Priorities and Purpose, Candace discussed the dynamics of her marriage. “My husband is a natural born leader,” she wrote. “I quickly learned that I had to find a way of honoring his take-charge personality and not get frustrated about his desire to have the final decision on just about everything. I am not a passive person, but I chose to fall into a more submissive role in our relationship because I wanted to do everything in my power to make my marriage and family work.”
She’s a hands-on parent.
Candace told People that she believes in engaging with her kids “constantly.” “I talk with them nonstop from really kind of intense and deep conversations to the fluffy stuff and the day-to-day,” she explained. “It’s important to let them know that you’re there for them no matter what. As a mom, I’m always going to have an opinion, but not in a judgmental way, if that makes sense. I’m going to give my best advice as a mother, or my husband as a father. But we want to be open enough that they don’t feel scared to be able to talk to us.”
The couple just celebrated their 22nd wedding anniversary.
Candace posted a touching tribute to her husband on June 22 of this year, which marked their 22nd wedding anniversary. “There really is something special about growing old together,” she wrote. “I love you even more today than I did on our wedding day simply because I KNOW you, 24 years in the making. We’ve refined each other which only happens through sifting out the ugly to get to the beautiful.”
They grew up together, apart before marrying
Cameria Shan “Tina” Beasley and Terrence Blake could have met, maybe they should have met — but they didn’t meet until the time was right.
“Now I’m like, ‘God meant for us to be together,’ but we just kept missing each other,” Tina says.
The first time I saw my future spouse:
She says: “I thought he was very sweet and shy.”
He says: “I didn’t like her hairdo.”
On our wedding day:
She says: “I just remember the look he had on his face when I was coming down the aisle. He had the biggest smile on his face.”
He says: “I was just a bundle of nerves. I was very nervous, very scared. I mean, I was very happy, but I was so consumed with being nervous about the whole ordeal. I was just praying a lot.”
My advice for a long happy marriage:
She says: “Keep God first in your marriage and don’t go to bed angry.”
He says: “Put the marriage in God’s hands and whenever you don’t understand something about your spouse or you’re kind of confused about things I believe you should pray to God and he will give you the answer about what your spouse needs from you or what you need to do.”
Tina and Terrence lived on the same street when they were babies — but Terrence and his family moved away when he was about 6 months old.
“I was just being born because we are six months apart. I’m born, he leaves,” she says.
They went to the same elementary, junior high and high school in the same small town, Camden, and they would find out later that their grandparents grew up together in the even smaller town of Rosston.
No doubt they passed in the halls countless times over the years, but Tina only remembers seeing Terrence once — when he rode her bus after school one day so he could go to the barber shop — before she got a glimpse of him through a window at school. She was a sophomore, in French class; he was a junior, in Spanish class. The Spanish and French classrooms were connected, with the teachers’ office in between.
“It was like one big office but on opposite sides,” she explains. “I could look through the window and I was like, ‘Who is he?”
Her friend knew.
“I was like, I like him. She said, ‘That’s T. Blake. You know, T. Blake.’ I was like, ‘No! I don’t know him,'” she says.
Her friend agreed to do some reconnaissance to find out if Terrence was dating anyone and to report back.
“He had just broken up with someone,” Tina says.
Terrence was on the football team, and Tina was under the impression he was shy.
“My friend didn’t think he was quiet,” she says. “She knew the other side of him. So she talked to him and when he came up to me I was blushing — I was really, really blushing. I couldn’t believe it because I had the idea he was going to be shy. But he came up and introduced himself to me.”
Terrence hadn’t seen Tina, either, before their friend pointed her out.
“I could be kind of tunnel-visioned so I had never noticed her. I thought she was pretty but her hairdo … it was a little ‘hood,'” he jokes. “I didn’t really know if she was going to be nice or not.”
They talked for a few minutes and Terrence decided she was nice, and he said he would call her that night. She didn’t get that call, and the next day she asked him why. Terrence said he had called her but the woman who answered — Tina’s grandmother — told him Tina was busy washing dishes.
“I told my grandmother she almost ran off my husband,” Tina says.
Their first date was to a Valentine’s Day dance at school.
“My grandmother told me it wasn’t really a date because I wasn’t old enough for that,” she says.
Her grandmother dropped her off, nonetheless, and she went inside to wait for Terrence but he was late.
“I was like, ‘Oh, my goodness, this dude is not coming,’ but he came,” she says.
It wasn’t that he had been complacent about their “date” — it was just the opposite.
“I was just nervous. I was trying to relax and not be anxious about the whole situation so I was trying to play it cool and I ended up dozing off,” he says. “I was pretty late.”
Tina gave him kudos for showing up after that.
“The picture guy waited and we were the last picture of the night,” she says.
They dated through high school, but took a break when Terrence graduated and went to Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, La. They kept talking, though, and when he transferred to Arkansas Tech University at Russellville, while Tina was attending the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, their proximity led to more time together.
“That’s when we got more serious,” she says.
Terrence proposed to Tina at his grandparents’ 50th anniversary reception, just after they had renewed their vows.
“I prayed and I was just so nervous and I was unsure and I didn’t want to get married and I didn’t want it to fail,” says Terrence of his preparation for popping the question. “My parents got divorced so I asked God if this is what I should do. I really feel like God put this on my heart that this was what I should do and that he would be with me.”
They were married on June 16, 2007, in Tina’s church, Shady Grove Baptist Church in Harmony Grove.
They have three children — Terrence II, 10, Terryn, 8, and Torryn, 3 months.
Tina is a mental health para-professional at Pinnacle Pointe Hospital. Terrence is a lab tech supervisor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Terrence did introduce himself to Tina when the time was right, but she still considers him reserved.
“He was trying to act like he wasn’t shy,” says Tina, who’s glad he talks to her now.
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Tina and Terrence Blake went to the same small school for years before they noticed each other in high school. “Now I’m like, ‘God meant for us to be together,’ but we just kept missing each other,” Tina says.
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Prince Charles' secret note to Diana on the eve of their Royal Wedding
Prince Charles wrote his bride-to-be Diana Spencer a sweet message on the eve of their wedding, despite reportedly having doubts about his marriage, an insider has claimed.
The heir to the throne, who was 32 as he prepared to tie the knot, sent the note and gift to Clarence House where Diana spent the night.
Despite reportedly having doubts about their marriage, the note was supportive and offered her advice for the big day.
In her new book about Camilla, royal author Penny Junor writes: “The night before the wedding, which Diana spent at Clarence House with her sister Jane, he sent her a note, along with a signet ring that bore the Prince of Wales feathers.
Diana spent the night before her wedding with her sister (Image: WireImage)
“He wrote: “I’m so proud of you and when you come up I’ll be there at the altar for you tomorrow. Just look ’em in the eye and knock ’em dead'”, reports the Express.
Ms Junor also claims Charles believed the wedding was a mistake but knew it was too late to pull out.
She claims Diana changed in the lead up to their wedding and she became moody and tearful.
Alarm bells rang for Charles in the few meetings they had before they wed (Image: Reuters)
She writes: “Charles was not convinced he was doing the right thing in marrying Diana but there was no way out and, bolstered by the hope that things would be different once they were married, he put a brave face on it.”
Charles and Diana married in a lavish ceremony on July 29, 1981 which was watched by 750 million people around the world.
Earlier this year royal reporter Robert Jobson claimed Prince Charles knew the wedding was a “massive mistake” before he said I Do in a new biography.
Charles is said to have told his friends: “I desperately wanted to get out of the wedding in 1981, when during the engagement I discovered just how awful the prospects were, having had no chance whatsoever to get to know Diana beforehand.”
Before starting his relationship with Diana he dated Camilla, but she was not considered a suitable match.
KBC 10 grand finale highlights November 23, 2018: Big B gives hilarious advice on marriage to Kapil Sharma
In the grand finale episode of KBC 10, Indian Idol contestants began the show by giving a performance. Amitabh Bachchan then greeted the audience and welcomed social worker, Harakchand Savla along with Bollywood director, Anurag Basu. Together, the two played the game wisely and climbed up the ladder swiftly.
They used the 50: 50 lifeline to win Rs 25 lakh and eventually took home the same amount. It was then time to award the winner of KBC Play Along contest. Nikhat Fatima emerged on the top of the leaderboard and was gifted a car.
Post this, Sparsh Shah came for a performance. All of 15, it was learnt that Sparsh was born with a bone disorder. However, despite his illness, he loves to follow his passion for music. He enthralled the audience with his melodious voice and impressed Big B.
Next week, Kapil will be joined by environmentalist Ravi Kalra, the founder of the Earth Saviours Foundation as part of the Karamveer special. In the preview teaser, it is shown that he seeks Mr Bachchan’s blessings for his show and marriage. While playing the game, Kapil asks Big B for his advice on marriage. Big B excitedly tells Kapil that before the wife tells him anything, he should say sorry. This mantra will always help him.
