Engagements & Weddings
Chapel Hill natives Emily Sternbach and Alexander Elkins met at East Chapel Hill High School in math class. Despite Alex transferring to Chapel Hill High School for his last two years, the two remained good friends. They reconnected during a college summer break in 2006 and started dating. Ten years […]
Keaton Brewer and Kate Felt first connected while working in Chapel Hill in 2013. After three happy years together, Keaton was ready to pop the question. He proposed on the 50-yard line at Kenan Memorial Stadium with “Kate, will you marry me?” displayed across the jumbotron. To make the surprise […]
After meeting on eHarmony in the fall of 2015, Chapel Hill High School and NC State grad Heba Salama and Ontario native Greg Frazer went on their first date at Glasshalfull. It wasn’t long until the couple started adventuring across the U.S. and Canada to destinations as far as Hawaii […]
Paige Horvath and Chris Putt met as children at YMCA Camp Clearwater, began dating in high school – Chris attended East Chapel Hill High and Paige attended Chapel Hill High – and suddenly, one day together became seven years. After Paige graduated from UNC-Greensboro and Chris from UNC-Charlotte, they moved […]
A freshman year birthday party at UNC-Greensboro facilitated a fast friendship for Chapel Hill native Alicia Lanham and Ronald Sisco II of Boston and eight years later, it would result in a marriage. After their graduation, the couple moved to Chapel Hill where Alicia would attend and graduate from Watts […]
Katie Stanford and Kent Torell met at Chapel Hill High, after Kent brought Katie her homework everyday while she was out of class due to a horseback-riding accident. Eight years later, Kent popped the question over a casual sushi lunch, where the waitress interrupted the proposal – accidentally – to […]
Dylan Stroupe, who attended Northwood High School in Pittsboro, and Crystal Stanford, who attended Chapel Hill High School, grew up just a few miles apart. But despite that, and having both attended UNC for undergrad, Dylan and Crystal’s paths didn’t cross until Dylan was a newbie on Crystal’s recreational kickball […]
UNC grad Lori Burgwyn and Ivan Hernandez first met through an online dating website. Ivan, who is currently active duty military in the Army, had sent Lori, owner of Franklin Street Yoga Center, a message that yoga had helped him to deal with his PTSD after his four deployments to […]
“Doug and I both knew that we wanted cupcakes right away – we didn’t even have to talk about it! We both prefer the frosting-to-cake ratio of cupcakes, and it offered guests more options for flavors. [Our selection included] spice with vanilla buttercream, chocolate with chocolate buttercream and almond with […]
Chapel Hill natives Carly Yusiewicz and Greg Sronce met through mutual marching band friends at Chapel Hill High School. They also went to prom together their junior year – only with different dates! When Carly was a senior at UNC and Greg had graduated from Appalachian State, the couple reconnected. […]
