Allison & Bart in Denver, CO

Ironically, it was Allison's boyfriend that led her to the man she was to marry. The Bride Allison Riekse, 30, high school counselor The Groom Bart Bansbach, 30, finance The Date June 12 In 1997 the Michigan native moved to Denver with her guy, briefly meeting Bart after six months in the city. As fate would have it, more than a year later the new singleton ran into Bart again and, as Allison says, the rest is history. Following a romantic Pebble Beach proposal, Allison and Bart started planning their huge country club wedding with help from a wedding coordinator and websites like ours truly, TheKnot.com. How did anyone with a job plan a wedding without the Internet? Allison exclaims.