“It basically played out like, we met one night and ended up talking on the phone until 4 or 5 in the morning,” says Nika Booker-McVey, thinking back to the 15-year-old versions of herself and now-husband Matt Booker-McVey. Even though they didn’t have their first date until 17, that close connection had been impossible to […]
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Rajean & Leroy
The love story started via text message, but Rajean Boudreau and Leroy Willis were destined to be family eventually—their grandparents were friends, their parents went to school together and a cousin introduced them. Five years after first meeting, Rajean came home to find a trail of flowers leading to a massive heart—and her man on […]
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Kailee & Pearse
“I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride…so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep,” reads a poem by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, describing a love of no surprises, just connection. A love like Kailee Joudrie and Pearse McCarron. It was the perfect choice, then, for a reading at their intimate, 150ish-person wedding, […]
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Taryn & Justin
Three years after Taryn Adams and Justin Dando started dating, Taryn came home to a candlelit apartment strewn with rose petals and Justin dressed to the nines on one knee. Classically romantic, the couple went into wedding planning with a more casual vision in mind. “We didn’t want the glitz and glam of the weddings […]
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Carol & Neketo
The first time Carol Sam was introduced to Neketo Ferguson, she gasped. “It was attraction at first sight for me,” she remembers. Despite that, and living miles apart with Neketo in the Bahamas, the two settled into a close friendship for years before it finally grew into more. After a year of dating, Neketo had […]
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Amanda & Tony
“I just kept saying “Pinch me! Pinch me! This can’t be real,” says Amanda Mina of her now-husband, and longtime friend Tony Nahas’ dramatic proposal. After having her picked up and driven around town at random, Tony—with a rose in hand— finally popped the question to Amanda on the edge of Seaview Park. “My heart […]
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Daniel & Robert
Like a page out of a Halifax bar scene history book, Daniel Sheppard and Robert Ryan met at the Pogue Fado at a Guerilla Gayfare event. And like a page from a romance novel, they got engaged on a balcony in Capri, Italy. “I carried the ring with me for three weeks,” says Daniel. “We […]
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Allison & Matt
Allison Young had been in Korea for about a year when she met Matt Chaput, a fellow Canadian and English teacher. After spending five years together working overseas the pair moved back to Nova Scotia, bought a house and soon after, got engaged. “I would be lying if I said I didn’t have a secret […]
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Brendal & Scott
Five years after Brendal Davis met Scott Townsend at The Lower Deck, they were camping in Pugwash when he surprised her on the trail by getting down on one knee and presenting her with a ring engraved with the landscape around them. When they were planning their wedding they wanted to make it as personal […]
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Amanda & Shannon
Two years before they were officially introduced, Amanda Assoun and Shannon Huckle locked eyes at a gas station, unable to look away but too nervous to say anything. That moment burned in their memories until a mutual friend finally introduced them after hearing both sides of the same story. The couple began planning their wedding […]
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Carlee & Kendal
When Carlee Adamski and Kendal Smith planned an April wedding, they never expected that when the big day came, Halifax would still be in total winter mode. The pair—who followed the friends-first path to love—had gotten engaged the previous spring in the Bahamas, while visiting Kendal’s family. “I wasn’t expecting such an open, public kind […]
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Christina & Michael
Michael Diab and Christina Israel had known each other for a long time before he popped the question on a rooftop in front of the Empire State Building, classically romantic. He had their families meet them in the lounge after she said yes. From there it was a glamourous affair. “I wanted to focus on […]