Alyssa & Vincent in Rye, NY

After exchanging waterside vows, Alyssa Carrera and Vincent Messina hosted an autumn gala with a sea glass-green theme on the Long Island Sound. The Bride Alyssa Carrera, 33, social worker The Groom Vincent Messina, 35, investments The Date September 24 It was love the first time NYU grad student Alyssa Carrera and New Jersey-transplant Vincent Messina met in 2002 -- a year later they moved in together and after a little more than a year, he proposed. “Vince set up a picnic dinner in our apartment with candlelight, rose petals, checkered tablecloth, all of my favorite foods, and a bottle of Dom Perignon,” says Alyssa of the Independence Day proposal. After proposing on bended knee, Vincent took Alyssa up to the roof deck to watch the fireworks over Manhattan.