CONGRATULATIONS MR. AND MRS. GLIDDEN
“Billy proposed to me when we were on vacation there last year,” Shannon told ADRL.us. “We had actually planned to elope, but then we decided to include Billy’s friend, Kenny Perry and his wife, because Kenny was going to be over there golfing. Then the Perrys asked if some of their family could attend, too, and then Etta (Glidden’s mother) and her friend arrived, so there were a few more people than we originally planned, but when it was happening it was just like Billy and I were alone on the beach out there. It was really nice.”
On January 5, drag racing champion Billy Glidden married longtime partner Shannon Springer in an ocean-side ceremony at Baby Beach in Hawaii.
“Billy proposed to me when we were on vacation there last year,” Shannon told ADRL.us. “We had actually planned to elope, but then we decided to include Billy’s friend, Kenny Perry and his wife, because Kenny was going to be over there golfing. Then the Perrys asked if some of their family could attend, too, and then Etta (Glidden’s mother) and her friend arrived, so there were a few more people than we originally planned, but when it was happening it was just like Billy and I were alone on the beach out there. It was really nice.”
Glidden, the 2008 ADRL Flowmaster Extreme 10.5 world champion, said his mother has always liked the ocean and when they returned home last year she asked to come along the next time he and Shannon went to Hawaii. He said sure, but still never told her or his father (who stayed home in Indiana) that they planned to be married this time around.
“We told absolutely no one about this, not my parents, not her parents, nobody. I just told her that we were meeting the Perrys on the beach at a certain time and she was welcome to come, too, if she liked,” Glidden said. “So her and her friend arrived wearing their t-shirts and shorts, not knowing what was going on, but I think she was glad she came.”
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