About Joyful Ever After
Married 29 years, Damon and Melanie Owens founded Joyful Ever After in 2020 with a passion to help you get the marriage you want from the marriage you have.
Since 1993, Melanie, full-time homeschooling mother of eight, and Damon, the first executive director of the Theology of the Body Institute, have trained over 20,000 couples in marriage, natural family planning, and Theology of the Body.
Delegates at the 2022 and 2015 World Meeting of Families and the 2017 USCCB Convocation of Catholic Leaders, Damon and Melanie keep a full international speaking schedule at conferences, seminars, universities, high schools, seminaries, and parishes on the good news of marriage, sexuality, Theology of the Body, Theology of the Family, adoption, and NFP.
Melanie earned her BA in Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and her MSW at the University of California at Berkeley. Damon earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering at Brown University and his MS in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley.
In 2018, Pope Francis honored Damon with the papal Benemerenti Medal for his service to the Church in support of marriage and family. Damon and Melanie have eight children, and two grandchildren, and live outside of Philadelphia, PA (USA).
