Allison & John in Boulder, CO

Both Allison and John were definitely moved the first time they met, although partly because they were riding the bus. They were classmates in their first year of graduate school at the University of Colorado and often looked forward to their bus trips together to and from class. The Bride Allison Santoro, 30, landscape architect The Groom John Graham, 32, architect The Date October 21 “Graduate school is not so easy on your social life, so we would talk when we saw each other at parties and sit next to each other at group dinners,” says Allison, “but it was almost two years before we went on our first date.” Both John and Allison love the energy of the city, so on their date they went to explore the building progress in the South Platte River Valley. The short stroll turned into hours of walking, talking, and hand-holding. After four years of dating, John surprised Allison and proposed while they were hiking in the mountains.