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The Wedding Story of... Tracy & John Allen
Amy Conroy | March 3, 2015Tracy Cessna and John Allen’s love story began in February 2008. “While I was out with my friends and John was out with his, John approached me and introduced himself. We talked for awhile and when he asked me for my phone number I was extremely reluctant, only because of the fact that we met at a bar,” Tracy said.
The Wedding Story of... Megan & David Goldberg
Amy Conroy | March 3, 2015While a freshman at St. Mary’s College, Meg Griffin decided to join the Notre Dame Taekwondo Club. It was just a whim, but that is where she met her student instructor, David Goldberg, a sophomore at The University of Notre Dame. “We became good friends first semester and started dating second semester,” Meg explains.
The Wedding Story of... Madhuri & Amardeep Grewal
Amy Conroy | March 3, 2015Madhuri (Madhu) Singh and Amardeep (Sonny) Grewal lived in the same place for seven years – but they had never met. As Madhu was starting her freshman year of college at the University of Michigan, Sonny was beginning his sophomore year, also at U-M.
The Wedding Story of... Vesna & RJ French
Kathy Jonas | March 3, 2015RJ French saw Vesna Popovic walking down the street at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland when both were freshmen in 2005. It was love at first sight for him, but she appeared not to notice him. He made a habit of walking the busy route, hoping to get her attention. When they were finally introduced by friends, he seized the opportunity to ask her out. They began dating and continued all through college.
The Wedding Story of... Manisha Patel & Anuj Agarwala
Kathy Jonas | March 3, 2015Manisha Patel was completing her residency in emergency medicine at a Chicago hospital. Add to that, the little task of planning a large intricate four-day Indian wedding in Indianapolis. It might have been a little bit difficult at times, but she and her fiancé Anuj Aragwala (and their families) not only made it work, but made it something memorable, meaningful, and a lot of fun.
The Wedding Story of... Kristen & James Sawdon
Amy Conroy | March 3, 2015Three months after moving to Chicago, in June of 2010, Kristen Brickley met James Sawdon, and the two immediately hit it off. “After our first date, I remember going home and telling my roommate all about it and smiling from ear to ear! I had a feeling from the first moment we met that he was someone special.” Turns out, the feeling was mutual and the two have been together ever since.
The Wedding Story of... Nicole & Grant Cook
WeddingDay | March 3, 2015Describing something as “timeless” can mean many things. It can mean that something reflects the aesthetics of a bygone era positively ingrained into our cultural consciousness. Or it can be something that stands the test of time. Regardless of the definition, very few weddings are truly “timeless”.
The Wedding Story of... Jessica & Anthony Severino
Kathy Jonas | March 3, 2015Jessica and Anthony Severino took dance lessons from a friend who is a professional Latin dancer in Chicago so that their “first dance” would be memorable. But when it came time for the dance at their reception, Jessica said she couldn’t remember any of the steps she had spent so much time learning.
The Wedding Story of... Danielle & Jonathan Smith
Amy Conroy | March 3, 2015It didn’t take long for Dani Bauman to realize that Jon Smith, the man she met online using eHarmony.com in March of 2011, was the real deal. “On the way home from our third date I remember calling my dad and telling him I’d met the man I was going to marry!” The feeling was mutual and Jon proposed to his future wife just three months later.
The Wedding Story of... Anne & Andy Hammond
Amy Conroy | March 3, 2015Anne Muskopf and Andy Hammond met through a mutual friend in the summer of 2008 and immediately formed a friendship that quickly turned into something more.