Chuck Harmon and Yvonne Caverly will marry in August in The Carnelian Realm. Theyll invite their friends. Theyll invite family. And the couple, who began dating last Valentines Day, will invite all the customers that come into the Realm, their gaming store on 16th Street in Bowling Green. The dress shes picked out is Renaissance (style), said Harmon, a 38-year-old Scottsville native who grew up in Bowling Green. In the midst of Magic: The Gathering cards, Dungeons & Dragons games, Mech Warrior figures and the other gaming supplies sold in the Realm, theyll exchange vows. Its fitting for the couple who met in a now-closed gaming store where Harmon worked before he and Caverly sold gaming supplies for a while at Flea Land. I actually was rebuilding an engine for the guy who owned the store, said 24-year-old Caverly, a carpentry student at Bowling Green Technical College. The petite blonde describes herself this way:Im a grease monkey by nature, carpenter by trade, I love kids and I work with fabric on a regular basis because I work at Hancock Fabrics as well. I love sewing. Im a seamstress. Now, the Michigan native, who moved here with her mom, also Yvonne Caverly, when she was a child, wants to learn how to fight while wearing armor. Its something Harmon does on warm Sundays at Lampkin Park with The Society for Creative Anachronism, an international organization that researches and re-creates pre-17th century European history. This year, shes going to practice for fighting, Harmon said. Hes been doing it for more than five years, but now running the store takes most of his time. Im always here, Harmon said. But I have a good time. The store opened at noon on Friday and was filled with customers within minutes. Jason Towe, a 24-year-old snack vendor for Royal Crown Cola, was taking his lunch break in the store. Jake Walker, a 25-year-old stay-at-home dad, was hanging out there with his 11-month-old daughter, Julea. Im doing the IRS game, Walker said as he prepared his taxes. Harmon and Caverly dont mind that people come in the store just to hang out. They want people, especially children, to feel comfortable there. I want to get this designated a Bowling Green Police Department Safe Spot, Harmon said. He said gaming helped keep him out of trouble as a child. Now, especially on weekend nights, youths fill The Carnelian Realm. They order pizza, play games and are warned to strictly obey the stores rules: no drinking, no smoking, no drugs and no fights. Any fighting and theyre gone for a month, Harmon said. If they come back and fight, theyre gone for good. Ryan Zuccarrell , a 16-year-old home-schooled student, loves to go into the store, where he was hanging out Friday. Everyone heres nice and Ive made a lot of friends here, he said. When I left school and was home-schooled, I lost a lot of friends from Greenwood High School. Zuccarrell recently got his drivers license and now drives himself to the gaming store. Before that, Harmon and Caverly used to take me home, like every night, he said. Its something the couple thinks is important. Caverly said they wait until parents show, or we give them a ride home. The security can make gaming more fun for the youths. They really like it, Harmon said. Because they can be sorcerers and wizards and fighting the bad guys. Then they can go home and get back to normal. If Harmon and Caverly see kids getting too into it, we talk to them about it, he said of the role-playing games. Its not a way of life. For Harmon and Caverly, life is about family and friends. Friday, Harmon was worried about his dad, Chuck Harmon Sr., who was ill and in The Medical Center. His mother, Geneva Harmon, is dead. Harmon has, for the most part, stayed near family. He hasnt pursued coaching jobs, which he trained for as a physical education major at Western Kentucky University, and hes only left Bowling Green a couple of times once to drive a big rig in New Mexico, and earlier on a motorcycle tour in which he rode all over the country with the idea hed get a job somewhere else. I was young then, he said of his motorcycle days. Id say, Im starting a new life, and then Id come back to Bowling Green.