Arin & Andrew: A Beach Wedding in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

When Arin went looking for a guitarist, she found instead a partner for life. I walked into a room of guys playing guitar and shouted, 'Who wants to learn a song?' remembers Arin, who needed someone to accompany her in a talent show during a retreat for leaders in Young Life, a Christian outreach ministry for high school kids. THE BRIDE Arin Haun, 23 THE GROOM Andrew Guthe, 23 THE DATE July 21 Andrew, a seminary student, volunteered and, as they say, the rest is history. After the show, marathons of all-night conversations between the two University of Tennessee students ensued: We couldn't get enough of each other, says Arin. We would sit up until six in the morning laughing like best buddies. Only by God's grace and adrenaline did we make it through that semester, so sleep deprived. Andrew's proposal was no less blessed by divine luck: After convincing Arin that he wasn't ready to get engaged -- much to her crestfallen surprise -- he staged a whammy of a proposal a few days after Christmas at a place called Cade's Cove in the mountains near Knoxville, TN. What Arin thought was a Christmas gift exchange turned out to be much more. In the snow, near a stream, Andrew had placed an antique trunk filled with pictures, movie stubs, and love letters. He had saved everything that had to do with us, beams Arin. Also inside was a card asking for Arin's hand in marriage.