Will Laura & Wesley become the first couple to repeat their victory or will one of these two couples beat them out?
Cast your vote below. And remember, you can vote once a day, so come back tomorrow and show some love to your favorite couple!
1. Laura Clontz & Wesley Hargrove
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Date: November 25, 2009
Laura writes:
Wesley and I have known of each other since elementary school. He was in love with my best friend in fifth grade.
We “went out” in eighth grade for a month or so. Different middle schools was so rough, and it didn’t last. In high school, we became great friends and started dating again sophomore year. When it was time for college, I stayed in our hometown, and he went off to Santa Barbara, California, where he’s been most of the year for the last four years. Even with the long distance, we knew that we were perfect. In total, we will have been together for six years this March.
In November, I came to visit from Texas for Thanksgiving and Wesley’s birthday. He took me to a beach that we often visited during the summer we lived in Santa Barbara, with cliffs overlooking the beach and the ocean. It was sunset, which is our favorite time of day. As we sat and talked on the cliffs, Wesley said he wanted to go down to the beach. We both stood up, but instead of walking down the cliffs, he knelt down, took the ring out of his pocket, and asked me to marry him.
I said yes, and he told me that the people behind us with cameras were his friends taking pictures of us, so we now have pictures from the actual proposal! We spent the rest of the night on the phone with family and friends!
We’re now planning our marriage on October 23, 2010 here in Texas. And even though we’re still 1600+ miles apart, we know that there is nothing else that we would rather be doing. This is love.
2. Bonnie & Lee Hodge
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Date: March, 2005
Bonnie & Lee
Bonnie writes:
On a Tuesday afternoon, I got a call from my boyfriend, Lee. He told me that at work he’d won a free dinner for 2 at a restaurant downtown, but that we had to use it that night. It was a treat to go out on a weeknight so, of course, I was excited. It was a beautiful restaurant inside a Marriott Hotel. We ordered a bottle of wine and the food was amazing. When dinner was over, we took the rest of the bottle of wine and decided to go to the Parthenon Park downtown. It’s kind of like Nashville’s “Central Park” – only it has a life-size replica of the Greek Parthenon.
We walked around hand-in-hand for a bit and then on the steps of the Parthenon, in the moonlight, he got down on one knee, told me how much he loved me and asked me to be his wife. I was very surprised but very happy. I said yes and we got married 6 months later. He later confessed he had not won a free dinner, he was just trying to catch me by surprise… He succeeded. That was 5 years and 2 kids ago and we’ve been blissfully happy ever since.
3. John Barry & Andrea Kessler
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: September 6, 2008
Andrea & John
John writes:
I had ordered the engagement ring, but it hadn’t arrived, and frankly, I hadn’t planned the How. I wasn’t going to worry about that very long.
We had been house-shopping for a few months, and one Sunday afternoon, we put in an offer on the house we wanted. To celebrate, we went to the supermarket to pick up a bottle of wine. Andrea seemed a million miles away. I could read her face: “How could I be entangling my finances with a boy who hasn’t even proposed?”
To her credit, she had the trust in me to still take this leap before the greater leap of marriage. But I didn’t want that.
Without ring in hand, in the parking lot of Jewel-Osco, I smiled at her and said, “I’ve got a secret.”
“What is it?” she asked.
“Your engagement ring is being shipped right now. . . Would you marry me?”
And she smiled and cried “Yes!”
We kissed in the parking lot in the one of the lowest budget, yet most romantic, proposals either of us had seen on television. Two days later when the ring arrived, I got down on one knee two days later and placed it on her finger like a proper gentleman.
Now that you’ve read the stories, it’s your turn to weigh in. The winning couple will be revealed Friday.
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Pnina Tornai is a nutcase and I love it. You have to be a little bit crazy to put out the over the top creations she is able to make look oh so good. It’s like the old Dolly Parton saying, “You’d be surprised to know how much it costs to look this cheap.”
She is so extravagant and yet so confused. She talks like she is a fairy and I know she is foreign I’m just not sure from where (Edior’s note: Israel). I do know that she is 44 years old and bangin’.
Her website (http://www.pninatornai.co.il) is full of grammatical errors and loony philosophies (see sidebar). But you can do whatever you want when you create dreams out of fabric. Her dresses are for anyone who is having a party – a massive party with luscious décor, hundreds of guests, tons of drinking, dancing, embarrassment, dessert tables, ice sculptures, and a bride with an attitude.
“Working with my feelings and intuitions only I trust my heart to lead me, never my logic because creation comes from love and love is the most wonderful feeling in the universe,” the designer said on her website.
This is how I would sum up Pnina Tornai’s designs; a place you get to only from feeling because there is nothing logical about her dresses. By definitions, her designs should be gaudy, trashy and way too wacky, but somehow, she pulls it off with every dress. She transcends consistency and puts her energy into making every dress unique and special for the bride.
If you wear a Pnina gown there is no way to hold yourself back from acting like a super model. Her corsets give a woman the perfect feminine form and all of her dresses are hand sewn with the principle of Haute Couture.
Of course, that means that most of us can’t afford her dresses. They start at around $7000 and just keeps going up from there. But a girl can dream…. and start saving for that special dress.
I hope to one day be married in a Pnina gown. I love this woman and all her work. She loves to meet with brides before starting to work with them. So, if you are chill, she can go chill; don’t doubt Pnina.
Check out a few of my favorites on the following pages!
March 1, 1968
Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
Today in wedding history we celebrate the anniversary of Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash’s marriage. The two country music legends met in 1956 backstage at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.
Over the course of the next 13 years, Johnny & June performed together and despite Johnny’s numerous marriage proposals, she finally said yes while on stage in London, Ontario! They married just one week later in Franklin, Kentucky.
After 35 years of marriage, with seven children (two from June’s previous marriages, four from Johnny’s previous marriage and one child between the two of them), two Grammy’s, two homes and a tour schedule, it’s no wonder her step-daughter Rosanne Cash said, “If being a wife were a corporation, June would have been a CEO. It was her most treasured role.”
Johnny & June both passed on in 2003, but the love they shared has been remembered in their recordings and the 2005 biopic Walk the Line, that centered around their one of a kind romance.
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“Word” of the day: FMIL
Meaning: future Mother-in-Law
With an increase in wedding blogs & forums, we see an overwhelming amount of acronyms for wedding terms that before had no reason to be shortened.
So whether you are the newly engaged bride or the FMIL, you might want to brush up on your wedding slang before hitting the boutiques with your posse.
For your information, you may also see the following: FFIL (future Father-in-Law), FSIL (future Sister-in-Law), or FSIL (future Brother-in-Law).
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