Engagements & Weddings
Chapel Hill native and East Chapel Hill High grad Sara Yusko first crossed paths with John Madden while studying abroad in college. The Notre Dame students began dating after graduation in 2013 and their relationship went the distance as Sara worked to obtain her nursing degree from Duke and John […]
Grant Porter and Chapel Hill High School grad Hanna Root first met in 2013 at a UNC men’s soccer alumni event at The Crunkleton. Hanna tagged along with her brother, Chipper, a former player for the UNC men’s soccer team, and Grant was the varsity team’s assistant coach. Hanna thought […]
Chapel Hill native Scott Anderson met Caroline Blair of Trinity, N.C., in 2011 and the couple soon began to date. At his family’s Christmas party in 2014, Scott enlisted the help of his brother (and future best man) Will Anderson to pull off the proposal. Will gathered the Blair and […]
Angelica Lieth and Ty Fenton don’t remember when they first met. In their defense, they were about 10 years old, and it was probably during one of Ty’s playdates with Angelica’s brother. It wasn’t until 2014, when both were studying at UNC, that they met again at a PlayMakers Repertory […]
UNC alumna Hallie Sanchez met Chapel Hill native and East Chapel Hill High grad Daniel Sparrow when she started working at Millennium Sports Club in Durham. The pair eventually started hanging out after work before they started dating. Dan proposed in December 2014 after Hallie gave him his Christmas presents […]
Irving ‘Sears’ Driscoll III and Chapel Hill native Dorothy Hutchison met on a blind date set up by one of Dorothy’s best friends and future bridesmaid, Anna Brantley, in 2014. One date turned into two and then three as the pair became inseparable. On the day after Thanksgiving, Dorothy was […]
La Residence has always been a big part of Chapel Hill native Elliott Neal’s life; his parents, Moreton and Bill Neal, opened the restaurant together in 1976. It took on an even greater significance when he met the love of his life – then UNC student CC Glenn – while […]
UNC grad Helen Mitchell first met Antonio Nester at Cocoa Cinnamon in downtown Durham on a Sunday afternoon in August 2013. “We sat outside on the picnic tables and talked for at least three hours before we realized we had both gotten sunburned,” Helen says. The two started dating later […]
For Chapel Hill-bred Ali Halperin, meeting Bryan O’Leary in Atlantic City in 2010 was a stroke of luck. Having been convinced by mutual friends to visit the casinos, the two spent the evening attempting to impress one another – Bryan with his “so-called gambling skills” and Ali with the “Cupid […]
William Dawson III has roots in Greenville and Greensboro, while Heidi Werner is a New York native. The pair met on Christianmingle.com in October of 2013. William decided to surprise Heidi and pop the question at the site of their first date, Oakleaf in Pittsboro. Unbeknownst to Heidi, William had […]
