After the post-college proposal, this sweetheart couple pulled off an amazing event with just nine months of planning -- and a little help from Mom.
The Bride Brittany Flores, 23, account exec
The Groom Nathanael Rulis, 23, law student
The Date May 14
At Brittany's junior-year sorority formal, she met Nate on a date... too bad it wasn't with her. Nate was attending with one of Brittany's friends and he happened to be buddies with
her date. "As it happens, the two of us got along better with one another than we did with our own dates," says Brittany. Nate spent the pre-dance dinner making fun of Brittany in the hopes of being noticed, a strategy that seemed to work since they e-mailed each other over Christmas break. "When we returned to school, we went on three dates in the first five days," remembers Brittany. Fast-forward to after graduation: After a Sunday dinner with both of their families, Nate proposed to Brittany as they walked across a golf course. "It took me a good five minutes to get my head around what he was saying," laughs Brittany. "I don't remember, but apparently I just kept saying 'Stop it! Get up! Stop it!'"
-- Laura Gilbert