Brad and Jacqui Putt have been married nearly 20 years. Their business is Main Stage Music in downtown Dayton, Tenn.When they were 18, Brad Putt proposed to his wife Jacqui on a walking bridge draped in glittering lights and spanning a creek in Dayton, Tenn. They set the date for one year later.
In the lead-up to their nuptials, Brad moved out of his parents’ house and into an apartment, and Jacqui moved into his parents’ house to take his place.
“We both were raised in Christian households, and we wanted to keep our marriage sanctified and not bring any defilement into our marriage,” says Brad, now 39 and still living in Dayton, where he and Jacqui just celebrated their 19th anniversary.
“Romantic cohabitation was not something either of us would have been raised to think was OK,” he explains.
Even if it meant having to pay rent on a “roach motel” of an apartment less than a mile from his fiancee, Brad and his wife say they’re glad they waited to move in with each other until after the wedding.