Courtney & Jeff in Mount Lookout, OH

Even before they married, weddings played a large role in Courtney and Jeff’s relationship. The two were first introduced by mutual friends at the Kentucky Derby, and a couple of weeks later Jeff called to ask if Courtney would be his date for a wedding. “I said sure, and we ended up having a ball,” remembers Courtney. The Bride Courtney Kinney, 29, public relations manager The Groom Jeff Woeste, 29, project manager The Date September 24 Although the two were each other’s wedding dates once more, they insisted to themselves that they were “just buddies.” By the time fall rolled around a few months later, they couldn’t fool themselves any longer. Two years later, in the park where their romance had first begun, Jeff proposed.