Countdown to Bliss

Jennifer Thurston and Carl Neuhaus

Met: August 2003

Engaged: March 3, 2006

Projected Wedding Date: Nov. 25, 2006

It’s a capital idea! Carl Neuhaus, 28, a manager at Barclays Capital, is marrying Jennifer Thurston, 30, an account supervisor at Zenithdirect, an advertising firm, at Capitale, the cavernous boîte in a former bank on the Bowery. Read More

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Wayne Baker and Meredith Ronayne

Met: June 5, 2005

Engaged: Aug. 24, 2006

Projected Wedding Date: Oct. 14, 2006

Meredith Ronayne was a starry-eyed intern at the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Eastern District of New York when she watched Wayne Baker deliver a passionate opening statement in a trial against Read More

Countdown to Bliss

Michelle Castro and Loren Douglass

Met: March 2003

Engaged: February 2006

Projected Wedding Date: Sept. 29, 2006

Roll out the drinks cart over at the Time Life Building! Michelle Castro, 34, the national ad sales manager at Sports Illustrated Latino, is marrying Loren Douglass, 43, a handsome V.P. at Merrill Lynch with a football player’s Read More

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Heidi Albee and Daniel Holloway

Met: July 29, 2001

Engaged: July 6, 2006

Projected Wedding Date: Feb. 10, 2007

Ms. Pac-Man is becoming a Mrs.! Heidi Albee, 26, a striking brunette human-resources representative at Atari, plans to marry Daniel Holloway, 27, a lanky, sideburned staff writer at Metro. They live in Read More

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Loren Hammonds and Kahlila Robinson

Met: 1982

Engaged: Oct. 9, 2005

Projected Wedding Date: Nov. 25, 2006

Loren Hammonds, a.k.a. “Mojo the Cinematic,” a vocalist for the hip-hop band Dujeous, plans to marry Kahlila Robinson, a candidate for a doctorate in clinical psychology at City College. The ceremony and reception are being organized by Soraya Read More

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Sarah Coombs and Andy Pratt

Met: May 2001

Engagement: July 15, 2006

Projected Wedding Date: Fall 2007

Andy Pratt, 29, a laidback graphic designer who recently started an eponymous greeting-card company, is marrying Sarah Coombs, 28, a bubbly candidate for an MFA at Tisch, specializing in set and production design. Wedding Read More

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Amanda Danuser and Vince Parenti

Met: Nov. 7, 2000

Engaged: Nov. 1, 2005

Projected Wedding Date: Dec. 2, 2006

Amanda Danuser, 29, the co-founder of the Green Room, a fashion showroom, intends to marry Vince Parenti, 41, president of Reverie Pictures and a filmmaker whose latest feature, The Longest Yard Sale, is in the early Read More

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Michael Kelly and Mary Beth Maioli

Met: Oct. 13, 2005

Engaged: July 3, 2006

Projected Wedding Date: May 12, 2007

After a few months of dating Michael Kelly, Mary Beth Maioli, who is something of an indie-music snob, started a campaign against his David Gray collection. “I have no culture,” conceded Read More

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Claudette Bakhtiar and Lars Ericson

Met: Jan. 2005

Engaged: March 2006

Projected Wedding Date: July 29, 2006

Claudette Bakhtiar, 36, a lawyer turned writer, plans to marry Lars Ericson, a vice president at Citigroup 10 years her senior, at Full Moon Resort in the Catskills, near a cabin owned by Mr. Ericson.

The pair met Read More

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Kambri Crews and Christian Finnegan

Met: Jan. 3, 2003

Engaged: Nov. 18, 2005

Projected Wedding Date: Aug. 12, 2006

Christian Finnegan, 33, a comedian, panelist on VH1’s Best Week Ever and the host of Game Time, a game show on TVLand, plans to wed Kambri Crews, 35, his publicist, at Galapagos Read More