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 .

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.

First Person I was dead set against marriage. But on my 50th birthday, I proposed to the love of my life

“My second-to-last wedding was a woman in her 3

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