Angie & Art in Minneapolis, MN

It was surprise enough when Angie showed up in the Australia base camp where Captain Art Behnke Jr. of the United State Marine Corps was stationed. The two had not seen each other for months. Art, an aviator, was deployed and flying in Australia, and Angie had been doing some dive travel in the South Pacific when she planned her surprise visit. What happened next was even more of a shocker: Angie, dressed in an aviator's flight suit for the occasion, proposed to Art in front of his friends, who were already informed of the plans and equipped to celebrate with bottles and bottles of champagne. THE BRIDE Angie Ray, 28 THE GROOM Captain Art Behnke Jr., 31 THE DATE May 24 Though Angie and Art had met first at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they fell in love six years later when they met again in Tokyo, Japan, where she was working for 3M Company and he was on his first deployment. Because they had fallen in love in Japan, they wanted a touch of Asia and a touch of sea as their wedding-day themes.