Real Weddings

Jaime (a plastic surgeon) and Danielle (a preschool teacher) met on a blind date. The Los Angelenos dated for seven months before Jaime popped the question over the Fourth of July weekend. He proposed to Danielle with Champagne and roses in the same spot they subsequently were married a year later.
Cameron Scott Kiser & Lisa Marie Wojcik Cam and Lisa were introduced by Lisa's cousin Gerry in 2011.  At the time, he and Cam were roommates. Cam had just finished school and started working as a physician assistant at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. On one of his rare nights off, Gerry persuaded Cam to meet up with...
"We met in junior high. He sat in the front row in our history class. I thought he was too outspoken. He was the guy who would yell something ridiculous before an assembly, but he was so funny!" "Eventually, we became friends. I gave him my phone number and he would call me and I would always miss it. I was...
Shae and Sam met at a karaoke night their freshman year at Utah State University. They dated for a few months before Sam left on an LDS mission. Shae, too, went on a mission, but the couple reunited “right where we left off,” Shae says.
“I really wanted to hold our dinner and reception somewhere that had a grand feeling unlike anywhere else in the state,” Jasmine says about selecting the Utah State Capitol building for their May wedding.
Cailley Chakeen & Andrew Tonn -  10.3.15 THE COUPLE Long before Cailley and Drew settled into a newlywed life operating their own farm, Harris Buttes Ranch in Montana, mutual friends introduced the two Salt Lake City dwellers. Three years later, Drew proposed after a skinny dip—yes, a skinny dip—in an isolated Montana pool in Swan Valley. “Before climbing out of the water,...
Before moving to Utah, Christina and Ryan planned their wedding from Chicago. “I had always dreamed of a late-fall or early-winter wedding, but in Chicago, that meant it would be have to be indoors,” Christina says. “I had fallen in love with the mountains on our previous trips to Utah.”
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Words can’t describe it. In memory, it’s a colorful blur. You have to be there or see the pictures to understand the vivid colors, joyful crowds, glittering traditions and rambunctious music of an Indian wedding.
University of Utah students Maggie and Spencer were longtime high school sweethearts in Philadelphia. After six years of dating (two of which were long distance), it was no surprise that Spencer proposed the week he returned to Salt Lake from his LDS Mission.