Mandy Fila and Daniel Ferguson won a lottery of more than 100 couples seeking the first Cook County marriage license of 2023.
After all, the pair have known each other for more than 20 years, been a couple for 13 and are raising two children, ages 6 and 9.
But the wait was over Tuesday, as they were the first to be officially married in Cook County in the New Year.She said she was "elated" to preside over her office’s first in-person ceremony in two years. Her traditional first-of-the-year marriage license ceremony had been virtual during the height of the pandemic.
Fila, a diabetes educator at Advocate Health, said she learned just a week ago they had won. "Everyone was just blowing up our phones; that’s how we found out," Fila said.Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough officiates for Mandy Fila and Daniel Ferguson, who won the lottery to receive Cook County’s first marriage license of 2023, during a wedding ceremony at the clerk’s Loop office, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. File and Fergus"We didn’t expect to have a wedding this way.
Asked how he knew Fila was "the one," Ferguson said: "I don’t know how to explain it. But you know when you know."
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