‘I love love’: Retiring marriage commissioner reflects on 8 years of marrying B.C. couples
CBC
Eight years ago, Natasha Lyndon was thumbing through the local newspaper when she came across an ad seeking a candidate to become a marriage commissioner in Kamloops, B.C.
“I thought, ‘That is going to be the most incredible job ever,' so I applied,” she told CBC’s Daybreak Kamloops.
She got the gig, and since she started in 2017, Lyndon has married 564 couples.
“I love love,” she said.
She’s been part of proceedings for all kinds of couples — those who have been together for 30 years, others who have only known each other six months; she’s officiated weddings for multiple sets of brothers, couples who met online and people she’s known for decades.
“My second-to-last wedding was a woman in her 30s who, when I first moved to Kamloops 22 years ago, lived across the street from me and was like 10 years old,” Lyndon said.
She describes each wedding as a “dopamine hit,” getting a particular joy from watching as couples become emotional as they walk down the aisle.
But now, she’s hanging up her hat officiating weddings at the age of 65.
A former dance teacher, child-care worker and library assistant, Lyndon was in a car accident last October while driving from wedding to wedding.
“That kind of got me winding down,” she said.
“How many more dopamine hits did I need?”
Lyndon spoke with Daybreak Kamloops host Shelley Joyce about her retirement and what she learned during her tenure as a marriage commissioner in B.C.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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