“Brock and I always referred to our one-year together in Hawaii as our special, once-in-a-lifetime adventure,” she said, “but now there was an opportunity to go back, it was really hard to believe.”
A few months later, Ms. Spector was in Honolulu, working in the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Hawaii. Her adventure with Mr. Glover — who would soon complete a deployment to the Middle East and rejoin Ms. Spector in Hawaii — was now happening twice in a lifetime.
“We’re kind of building a home here,” said Mr. Glover, who was last stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., having achieved the rank of captain promotable, and was honorably discharged by the Army in February 2019.
“We’re far from family and mainland friends,” he said, “but to be back in the place we met, well, it’s pretty special for us out here.”
They were married Aug. 23 at their Honolulu apartment by John V. Kamensky, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, with family attending on zoom. (The couple had originally planned to marry on Feb. 13 at the Waialae Country Club in Honolulu with 130 guests and later at a private residence on the Big Island, but the coronavirus forced them to cast those plans aside.)
The couple’s viewing audience included the bride’s parents, Barbara Spector, a stay-at-home parent, and Dr. Stephen Spector, a retired periodontist in Shark River Hills, N.J., as well as the groom’s parents, Betsy Glover, a retired child care specialist, and Charles Glover, a retired United Methodist pastor in Newark, Ohio.
“We’ve been together seven years, but when Brock left the Army to be with me in Hawaii, it was the first time that we were actually joining our lives together in a real way, yet there were no doubts and no jitters,” Ms. Spector said. “After all we’ve been through, we have a love and respect for each other that has grown immensely.”