Brianna & Jonathan in Cortez, CO

Brianna and Jonathan may have fallen in love in California -- but it was in Brianna's home state of Colorado that their wedding ride began and ended. THE BRIDE Brianna McCabe, 22, garden shop clerk THE GROOM Jonathan Van Dyke, 24, pet hospital technician THE DATE May 29 While on a winter break from college in Santa Barbara, the couple visited Brianna's parents in Cortez, Colorado. Strolling along her family's horse path to a circle of cottonwood trees where Brianna used to play, Jon abruptly knelt down in the snow. Clueless, Brianna says she kept trying to pull him up and telling him that his pants were getting soaked. Then Jon asked his former dorm neighbor to marry him. The result? An engaged couple with four wet knees.