Claire & Michael in Long Island, NY

Mike and I first connected because of our mutual love of drama, says Claire. Her initial theater tete-a-tete with Michael was thanks to two British lads the couple both traveled around the globe with at different times. Claire kept in touch and invited the guys to New York to celebrate the millennium. In return, they asked if they could bring along an English friend, whose beautiful eyes and well-versed theater vocab swept Claire off her feet (and later to London). The pair returned to the States to exchange vows at her parents' home on the Long Island Sound. THE BRIDE Claire Bosch, a 26, writer THE GROOM Michael Griffiths, 31, a corporate trainer THE DATE August 2