FEATURED WEDDINGS & ENGAGEMENTS

• ALONGE, 25, AND HANSON, 28

  By JENNIFER TIS

  August 24, 2008 - July 26 - When Alexandra Alonge challenged John Hanson to a game of one-on-one basketball, the ball was most definitely in her court. Lo and behold, they duked it out, Alonge won, and the couple never looked back. The duo, who met through mutual friends in high school, dated for almost a decade before Hanson, an attorney in Manhattan, proposed at...more >

  

• MIGNEREY, 31, AND TAFFEL, 32

  By CHRISTOPHER CASSUTO

  August 24, 2008 - July 26 - In March 2007, Carissa Mignerey felt like a little girl all over again when Jeremy Taffel proposed on a snow-covered beach in Stony Brook, LI. "He proposed on my birthday at my childhood beach, which is a 10-minute walk from my parents' house," says Mignerey, who manages Edelman, Krasin & Jaye Pllc in Carle Place...more >

  

• MAXIS, 36, AND PIERRE, 40

  By ALISA WOLFSON

  August 24, 2008 - July 26 - From their first date at soul food restaurant Jezebel to their first kiss atop 30 Rockefeller Center, Nicole Maxis and Michael Pierre had a fairytale relationship with a history of memorable milestones. Their storybook kinship continued when Pierre, a Xerox analyst, and Maxis, treasury manager at News Corp., released 15 doves at their...more >

  

• LOCKE, 29, AND SMITH, 24,

  By CHRISTOPHER CASSUTO

  August 17, 2008 - June 28 - Robert Locke's proposal was the perfect end to a miserable day for Melissa Smith. In June 2007, she was in tears over a nightmarish day at the office when Locke, an air conditioning systems mechanic, ran downstairs to fetch the engagement ring. "When he came back upstairs he asked me if I wanted to be miserable with him for the...more >

  

• GRELLER, 30, AND BLUMBERG, 32

  By ALANA NEWTON

  August 17, 2008 - July 27 - Kandace Blumberg and Mark Greller received a lesson in love four years ago, when they met at PS 154 in Brooklyn. The Cobble Hill duo, both elementary school teachers, then enjoyed an official first date that included walking over the Brooklyn Bridge for a stop at Grimaldi's famous pizzeria. "It was during Passover, but we got so...more >