Ramona & Randy Hunter COA STA L CO UPLE
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Behind the heart of Jade Venue Pensacola, is the unstoppable power couple, Ramona & Randy Hunter. Ramona & Randy have been together for 23 years, finding strength and love through their determination and faith. Together with their daughter, Amari, their mission is to foster the community around them. They’ve helped many couples tie the knot, and now they’re here to tell engaged and newlywed couples what has made their union intimately bound.
Q: HOW DID YOU MEET? RANDY: We met at Eglin Air Force Base. We were both stationed there. Ramona worked in the building as an admin and I was a project manager. My first impression was that she’s a caring person. She never says no. She’s always about the heart of the people, so I love that about her. That’s what attracted me to her. 23 years later, here we are. RAMONA: I was in the military kind of doing my own thing, and a friend of ours invited me to a house party. Believe it or not, I stay home a lot. I’ll just go to work and go home. Throw parties and go home. So they kept inviting me to parties, and I was like no. She said, “Please come, I know somebody that really wants to meet you.” So I went to the party, and we ran out of alcohol. So I said, “I’ll go get the alcohol.” And Randy said, “I’ll go with her.” So we went to the local Albertsons store and I go up, ready to buy the alcohol, and he said to the cashier, “This is my wife.” And I said to the cashier, “Here’s my ID. This is my name. This is my first time meeting him. So if I show up missing tomorrow, he got me.” And that was first of everything.
Q: IF YOU COULD GIVE YOUR MARRIAGE A SLOGAN, WHAT WOULD IT BE AND WHY? RAMONA: Resilience, because in the first part of our marriage, we were separated. I was stationed in Italy and he was stationed here (Pensacola). That took a lot of resilience getting back and forth. Our whole family dynamic is no matter what comes our way we tend to lean on each other. So, I would say resilience. RANDY: That gets to the heart of it, really. It was a lot. But, I think it’s the drive. You just have to care enough and be willing to put in the time and effort to work at it. When you get married, you think it’s all peaches and cream, but that’s when the real work starts. I was going to say “Rinse & Repeat” because we go through things, we do things, we see things. But in that, we always come back together. It’s easy to give up, but we just have that commitment to just keep going. Hopefully, it continues. She really likes me. We both keep our nose to the ground and keep working hard at it.
Q: WHAT IS YOUR NUMBER 1 TIP FOR A SUCCESSFUL & LOVING MARRIAGE? RAMONA: That’s too easy. Works every time. God has to be the foundation of your marriage. We’re all humans, and we all have our own divine destiny. We all have our own divine assignments, our own personalities. So, you have to have the common ground that gives you guidance. So for us, God gives us the guidance. I don’t know what to say outside of that because that’s what works for us. It may not work for a lot of people, but that’s what works for us. It all goes back to what God says about this. How does God tell me to treat my husband? How does God tell me to treat my friends? How does God tell me to treat my clients? That’s my foundation. ASKEW MEDIA CO 22 | COASTAL WEDDINGS MAGAZINE