This is the 7th in a series of Pie Camp Stories.
MARGARET AND DAVID: A COURTSHIP WITH PIE
Before meeting, pie had a strong place in the lives of both Margaret and David. Margaret’s midwestern childhood was full of the blueberry pies her great-grandmother made, and David’s Pacific Northwest memories included the apple pies made by his grandmother and father.
Margaret and David had each been “widowed too soon and after much grief” they met on a beach walk near Seattle. Their experiences of loss gave them much in common, but they also found pie was rolling out a new path for them, and wooing each other with pie became a part of their courtship. Margaret’s specialty was blackberry, peaking his interest in her, and she says that David’s apple pies made her “weak in the knees”.
On International Pie Day, March 14, 2014, David proposed to Margaret, and she accepted. That night they shared an apple raspberry pie with a beautiful lattice top as a symbol of the weaving together of their two lives. At their wedding feast a year later, a baker’s dozen pies graced the dessert table. Even with all the preparations on the morning of the wedding, David somehow had found the time to make an apple, a blackberry and a rhubarb pie for the reception.
The couple’s love of pie continues as their love for each other grows. They have a small pie garden in their backyard, and together they harvest the rhubarb, raspberries, blackberries, and apples they tend together. Margaret says that David makes the best crust, and David says Margaret’s fillings are the best. When you put both of them together, it truly sounds like a marriage made in pie heaven.
Favorite Pie to Make: Any pie we make together.
Favorite Pie to Eat: Pumpkin (David), Sour Cherry Pie (Margaret)

This is wonderful!
It’s such a wonderful story for pie day!
What a wonderful love story, Kate. Thank you for sharing! I owe my ‘no fear of dough’ to you and Pie Camp and have moved into making scones for our local tea room 🙂
Betty Young
Titusville, Florida
This is wonderful to hear, Betty!
Happy Pi(e) day. I have an apple/raisin coming along.
OH that sounds good! Happy baking to you today and every day!
Thank you for your inspiration, Kate. The smell of baking makes my house see all the more cozy on this rainy, windy day in Port angeles.
It sure is stormy. I have a pie in the oven right now warming my cottage.
Such a sweet story and a beautiful tribute to pie day!
I’m so glad you like it, too!
My husband, like me, is a chicken pot pie fanatic. Every year since he was a kid he had chicken pot pie on his birthday. After we met, on his birthday I offered to make him a chicken pot pie. He deferred and said other women had tried but they were never the same as the Swansons frozen ones he loved. I suggested he let me try, that I was pretty sure my pie would show him what pie was supposed to be. He relented certain his birthday pie would be a disappointment. Well, did I mention he’s my husband? It’s now tradition that all his kids and the grandkids come to our house for his birthday and chicken pot pie celebration.
Margaret and David’s story is so lovely that I wanted to share how pie is a love story often.
Such a sweet stories, both! Happy Pi Day, Amy!
Out of such sadness came something so sweet and delightful to share. May God continue to Bless you both. Happy Pi Day…💞
Thanks, Kate, for sharing our story. We’re still in love and still baking pies! Much love, David and Margaret
This just makes my heart sing. Much love to you both!
Oh I love seeing this! I open my blog feed and see a picture of Margaret. I knew her here in Georgia and love seeing how happy she is now. And connected by pie.
Amazing! This just makes this Pi(e) Day the best ever!
Lovely and “sweet” story. Thank you for sharing!
You are so very welcome, Monica!
What a lovely and inspirational story. So happy for you, Margaret and David, that you found each other!