Caitlin & Tom in Scituate, MA

Thomas (Tom) had a little help with his proposal to Caitlin. She’s originally from Cohasset, and her girlfriends from home were planning a reunion at a hotel in Boston. She’d been in contact with them for weeks before the date, but, unbeknownst to Caitlin, Tom had been in contact with her friends as well. “When I finally made my way to the hotel (even calling my friends for directions and room numbers en route!) Tom was there to open the hotel room door for me,” Caitlin says. With a little red box in his hand, he got down on one knee and proposed. The Bride Caitlin Stansell, 25, architect The Groom Thomas (Tom) Struble, 26, U.S. Navy submarine officer The Date September 3 Downstairs in the hotel restaurant, her parents were waiting to celebrate, and then afterward they met up with all her girlfriends (who had been in on the plan all along) at a local bar. “It was fabulously planned, and I congratulate my family and friends for never spilling the beans,” she says.