Dave& Catherine Yearwood
THE SCENE: A surf shop in San Diego.
Dave is a pro surfer; Catherine is an East Coast girl from
Wrightsville Beach. They are West Coast co-workers. She thinks
he is a player, and he thinks he won’t date her. He has much
respect for her faith, her pure spirit and he thinks that she
thinks he’s an idiot. Guy talk with other surfers interrupted
as Catherine walks by and his friends say: “Whoever marries
that girl is going to be very lucky.”
Fast forward to 2013.
HE: Wearing pink and black-striped socks and who painted
a neon skull and crossbones on the backyard trashcan: “We don’t have any kids.
I painted the neon skull and crossbones on the trash can myself. Why not? I always
thought I’d be a young surfer dad at 26, you know? But she and I have a lot of
fun together. Every day, when we get excited to come home and hang out, we do.
Nothing’s going to add more excitement to us, than us, because she’s the coolest person
I’ve ever met.”
She, in a faux-fur vest, with a laugh: “We got married at 22, 23. And we love being
married. One day, I said, ‘Maybe for us, it’s not about having kids. Maybe it’s just
about being married!’”
The very first time he kissed her was about two years after they met, when the
preacher said, “You may kiss the bride.”
WBM: Really?
SHE: “He gave me flowers, he held the door for me, he was totally present, and one
day he asked: ‘I bet you’re wondering why I haven’t kissed you, aren’t you?’ And I was
like, ‘um, yeah?’”
HE: “I just wanted to get to know her. And I knew kissing her, anything else, would
take away from really getting to know her.”
SHE, WITH A SMILE: “I tried to lure him into breaking the rules, multiple times.”
They dated every day for two weeks until it was time for her to catch her plane; she
was headed to a six-month study abroad program in Spain. Dave was neither fazed,
nor deterred.
HE: “Her dad did business in the Bahamas and had a good calling card, so I would stay
up until 11 p.m. in San Diego and we’d talk for about an hour every night.”
SHE: “I was scared by it all. I am a very independent person, but he was so inten-tional
about it, and the way he pursued me. I fell in love with him.”
HE: “Men should be intentional and have convictions — speak their minds. Men
need to know their minds. We need to be serious about our relationships. Her dad gave
me the greatest wisdom about marriage. He said, ‘Dave, you being a surfer, someone
who has a fun occupation — you should know, marriage is work. But who says work
can’t be fun?’”
Theirs is a lifestyle: as a pro surfer, Dave makes custom surfboards, travels and
models surf-style clothing. He also works side-by-side with Catherine at Hallelu,
meaning “praise the LORD,” the couple’s chic Wrightsville Beach clothing boutique.
SHE: “Our commitment is to celebrate what is, and how blessed we are, and how we
dated; that really set the tone for our marriage. We are here to serve something higher.”
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