Couple Ties the Knot at the Baggage Claim They Met at 12 Years Ago

Image: A busy airport baggage claim area. (photo via kyolshin/iStock Editorial/Getty Images Plus)
Image: A busy airport baggage claim area. (photo via kyolshin/iStock Editorial/Getty Images Plus)
Alex Temblador
by Alex Temblador
Last updated: 5:22 PM ET, Sat April 20, 2019

Romance occurs at the most unexpected of places and for Michelle Belleau and Ron Peterson that was at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport's baggage claim, where they first met 12 years ago.

Now the couple is coming full circling, hosting their wedding at the No. 6 baggage claim area today, April 20.

One hundred and twenty guests RSVP'd for what is Cleveland Hopkins International Airport's first wedding.

"To our knowledge, we have never had a wedding at the airport," a spokesperson for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport told CBS News on Saturday.

Twelve years ago, Belleau's boss asked her to pick up a client from Los Angeles at the airport, and that client was Peterson.

"He said he really wanted to get married at the place we first met," Belleau told Cleveland.com earlier this month. "I couldn't think of anything more perfect."

The couple now lives in Los Angeles after being involved in a long-distance relationship for years.


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