Deep into the fall semester of 2002, two Boston College students who traveled within a common social group came to realize that their friendship had taken an undeniably romantic turn. Despite their longstanding baseball-team rivalry (“perhaps even because of it,” the bride playfully jokes), given Chris’s dedication to the Red Sox and Laura’s loyalty to the Yankees, the couple fell in love.

In December of 2007, right around Laura’s birthday, the now inseparable twosome visited Mystic, Connecticut, a place they had both been eager to see. For Laura, this holiday jaunt was expressly geared toward enjoying the historic village’s famous holiday candlelight tour, with perhaps a little shopping thrown in. Chris, on the...

Steve Ball, 32, spotted Courtney Shea, 28, straight away that serendipitous night at a local pub in Burlington, Vermont, but he just couldn’t seem to work up the nerve to talk to her. Not wanting to lose the opportunity, he solicited one of his female friends to approach her. “My friend over there thinks you’re really pretty, but he’s way too chicken to come over,” the friend relayed.

The chemistry was immediate; they dated for more than four years before he proposed. Then one Sunday morning after church, Courtney was returning home with her usual cup of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee when, upon opening the front door, she found Steve kneeling down on one knee. The coffee quickly was discarded and replaced with a stunning diamond...

Roses are red, and if Megan DeMichiel had her druthers, violets would be, too. You see, for as long as she could remember, everything that mattered to this August bride of the month has been colored red.

“Red has been my very favorite color since I was a baby,” she says, noting that even her nursery was red. That said, when it came to planning her wedding, Megan stayed true to form, from the stunning rose petals strewn about the aisle and the silver candelabras holding abundant bunches of red roses, to the five-tiered red wedding cake custom-made by Aux Delices. Event planner Diana Gould of Elmsford helped make this dream come true with seamless style and grand-scale elegance as she complemented Megan’s plans, ideas, and efforts...

Vanessa Vetrano is a woman who knows what she wants. Impose your ideas and visions on her if you must, but at the end of the day, Vanessa will inevitably find her way right back to square one, drawing instead from her very own pocket of dreams.

When Vanessa first met Everett, of course the same rule of thumb applied. She happened upon Everett one night while out with some friends and, from that moment on, the two took off full steam and remained together for the better part of the next ten years. One crisp autumn night in 2007, the couple made things official. They set out to eat at a favorite restaurant, drove up to the entrance, and, unable to wait any longer, Everett pulled out his future wife’s engagement ring—a stunning 4.01-carat...

Rachael Scibior married Ricardo Silva almost 10 years to the day they first met at college in upstate New York. It was their mutual love of soccer that brought them together.

Born in Portugal, Ricardo moved to Yonkers with his parents and brother when he was 12 years old and like most European kids, he started playing soccer as soon as he could walk. He played through high school and was ultimately recruited to play for SUNY Institute of Technology in Utica, where he majored in business.

Rachael was born and raised in Cassville, in upstate New York, on 100 acres with cows, horses, and chickens. It wasn’t until high school that she fell in love with soccer and she went to SUNY Tech specifically to play the game and bide time for one...

Deborah Delaney, a calligrapher and designer, met David Finlayson, the second trombonist with the New York Philharmonic, in 1996 while walking her Welch terrier and bichon frise in Central Park. David was walking his long-haired dachshund at the time.

They quickly became friends, but didn’t start dating until 2003. When they decided to get married, they knew they didn’t want a huge venue like the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens or an impersonal hotel. They heard about Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills from Deborah’s daughter Alexis, who worked there one summer as a camp counselor at the Stone Barns Center for Agriculture. After just one visit, the couple was sold. “Nothing else was as appealing as Blue Hill at...