Brooke & Thor in Wetumpka, AL

When Brooke found out that her oldest friend, a naval officer in San Diego, was being sent to Afghanistan, she planned a trip to see him before he left. To help keep their minds off the impending deployment, Brooke planned to take her friend and his wife to see a concert during her visit. As she was driving from Los Angeles (where she was living at the time), he called to say his wife had a work emergency and couldn’t make the concert. Determined not to let the ticket go to waste, she told him to bring her a date -- and he did! His friend Thor was charming and handsome, and the two hit it off. The Bride Brooke Lee, 31, television writer/producer The Groom Thor Burbach, 34, graduate student The Date October 4 A few years later, while on a holiday vacation in Colorado, Brooke and Thor decided to take a drive to the Colorado National Monument. Despite the chilling 13-degree temperature outside, they stopped at a lookout to get a better view of the area. As they were standing there, Thor got down on one knee and proposed.