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  • Carter and Fred: Charleston, South Carolina

    Carter and Fred: Charleston, South Carolina

    After all, Charleston was the perfect location logistically -- the majority of their guests were traveling from elsewhere in the country. Carter is from Oklahoma, and Fred grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. The couple really wanted to show off the ...

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  • Christina and Alexander: St. Helena, California

    Christina and Alexander: St. Helena, California

    The bride, in an Oscar de la Renta gown, and groom, in Brioni, are all smiles.. The Bride and Groom. Cherries completed the signature drinks, whiskey sours, at the rehearsal dinner, which was hoedown-themed.. Signature Drinks. At the rehearsal ...

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  • Sarah and James: St. Paul, Minnesota

    Sarah and James: St. Paul, Minnesota

    With a fitting theme of "Oh, Happy Day" and plenty of charming details, Sarah Burt and James Fordham tied the knot. Their nuptials, captured by Adrienne Page, took place at the College of Saint Catherine's Our Lady of Victory Chapel in St. Paul, ...

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  • Anne and David: Roslyn Heights, New York

    Anne and David: Roslyn Heights, New York

    When Anne Chertoff developed a high school crush on David Tavelinsky, she knew they'd be together one day, despite the fact that David had a girlfriend. She was right -- and the theme of their wedding, inspired by the movie poster for "It Happened ...

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  • Melissa and Sam: Belmont, California

    Melissa and Sam: Belmont, California

    Popping the question wasn't something Sam Davis Jr. had planned to do on December 7, 2002. That afternoon, for fun, he and his girlfriend of two years, Melissa McElhatton, went window-shopping for rings. When they found one they loved, Sam purchased ...

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  • Liezel and Christopher: Chicago, Illinois

    Liezel and Christopher: Chicago, Illinois

    During a Christmas visit home to Chicago in 2002, Christopher felt it was the perfect time to propose. He took Liezel for a walk along the shore of Lake Michigan, got on one knee, and proposed. Liezel immediately said yes. When they looked up, two ...

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  • Sheila and Steve: Costa Mesa, California

    Sheila and Steve: Costa Mesa, California

    Sheila and Steve's wedding at the Grand Newport Plaza was the pinnacle of a seven-year courtship that began in 1996 with a casual meeting at a bar in Los Angeles, where they both lived at the time.. Sheila and Steve. A cherry blossom motif defines ...

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  • Alanna and Benjamin: Morristown, New Jersey

    Alanna and Benjamin: Morristown, New Jersey

    Alanna and Benjamin's beginnings as a couple were sweetly tentative. They met at Brown University in Rhode Island, where Ben, now a wireless-software engineer, was a freshman and Alanna was a junior. Slowly they found ways to get close. On they went ...

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  • Lenore and Lawrence: New York, New York

    Lenore and Lawrence: New York, New York

    While on vacation in France with her boyfriend Larry Ward 2001, Lenore Welby was lying on the bed in her hotel room, exhausted from a day of sight-seeing. Suddenly she felt something drop gently onto her stomach. She opened her eyes to see a small ...

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  • Eleanor and Rodney: Green Farms, Connecticut

    Eleanor and Rodney: Green Farms, Connecticut

    As a Manhattan bachelor in his thirties, Rodney Propp had been on his share of the blind dates. He approached his first date with Eleanor Heyman with the kind of clear-eyed practicality that comes from experience. But his skepticism melted away the ...

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