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The Wedding Story of... Abby & Carl Leng
Amy Conroy | March 3, 2015About a month after meeting Carl Leng at a mutual friend’s wedding, Abby Koepfle was confident that she found her perfect match. “The first time Carl invited me to his apartment I noticed that he owned the complete series of The West Wing on DVD, which is my favorite show,” Abby recalls.
The Wedding Story of... Hilary & Mike Riley
Hilary Riley | March 3, 2015I moved to Fort Wayne following graduation from Goshen College. I started my career and moved in with a family. I had only been living in Fort Wayne a couple weeks when I was approached by my best friend to go downtown on a blind date. Despite hesitation on both of our parts, Mikey and I agreed.
The Wedding Story of... Betsy & Tom Wallis
Amy Conroy | March 3, 2015Betsy Baird and Tom Wallis’ love story began in 2007 after the two connected on eHarmony.com. For the first two years, the couple made their relationship work by traveling back and forth to Muncie, where Betsy lived, and Indianapolis, where Tom resided, before Tom made the permanent move to Muncie.
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”.