Horned Frog Love: Valentine's Day
Celia and Craig Martin

It was April 1994. Celia Cullen, then a senior, walked nervously over to talk to Craig Martin. The two were attending their Honors History dinner at the Coors Beer Plant. Celia was interested in graduate programs in Europe, and a friend had told her she should talk to Craig, who had already been accepted to the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

“I was very nervous,” Celia said. “I had to drink one of those Strawberry beer things Coors was experimenting with to get my nerve up to introduce myself. I can’t remember anything else except that I was so nervous to talk to someone new and that I was concentrating on my questions. I must have thought he was nice because I believe I ended up talking to him the rest of the party.”

After the party, Celia followed Craig to 7-11 for ice cream. They then went to pick up a catalogue over at Craig’s about the University of Edinburgh for Celia.

“That night he asked me out for a date,” Celia said. “I said ‘yes’ and that was that.”

For the next month until graduation, the couple spent so much time together they barely studied.

Following graduation, Celia ended up going to graduate school outside of Windsor, England, and Craig attended the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. They bought train passes and ended up seeing each other almost every weekend.

“That Thanksgiving I took the train to Edinburgh where Craig met me at the station and with an antique ring he had purchased on the Royal Mile he proposed as I stepped off the train onto the platform,” Celia said. “I immediately said ‘yes’ as we received applause from the other passengers.”

Craig said he was nervous about his proposal.

“I thought she wouldn’t like the way I proposed,” he said. “Many scenarios were running through my head.”

In September 1995, Craig and Celia came home to Texas and were married in Robert Carr Chapel.

They now live near Valley Forge outside of Philadelphia. The couple went to New York for the TCU vs. Army game this year.

“We love being a Horned Frog couple,” Celia said. “It makes life so nice. We cheer for the same team, our friends all know each other, and we will always have that common bond.”