Anna & Seth in Chicago, IL

Anna and Seth first met at a New Year's Eve party in 1997. I was wearing an outlandish powder blue tuxedo shirt from the 1970s, recalls Seth. Anna came over to compliment me on my outfit, and we ended up talking for over an hour. The pair discovered that they shared the same sense of humor and an interest in mid-century modern furniture, but because both were in other relationships, they never exchanged numbers. The Bride Anna Kipperman, 34, graduate student The Groom Seth Lamden, 33, attorney The Date December 9 Fast-forward to January 2006, and the two reconnected on jdate.com -- but didn’t realize until they spoke on the phone that they had actually already met nine years earlier! Four months later, they got engaged in front of the Peggy Notebaert Museum in Lincoln Park, and just six months after that they married in a chic, contemporary celebration at a landmark hotel.