Dawn & John in Asheville, NC

Dawn and John met through a mutual friend who had often told Dawn the two would probably have a lot in common, though she wasn’t exactly sure what. “She knew my job involved computers or software or something like that,” Dawn remembers, and she thought John did something similar. The Bride Dawn Chaney, 34, consultant The Groom John Chuprevich, 32, engineer The Date September 23 They finally met and indeed had loads to talk about, but at the time, Dawn was living on the west coast and John lived in Illinois. “After our second meeting, I decided that I should be married to Dawn,” John recalls. “I walked into my boss’ office and told him I was in love, and I was going to move to California to work in our Santa Cruz office. Since we didn’t have a Santa Cruz office, I’d go ahead and open it.” A year and another cross-country move later, John asked Dawn to marry him while on one of their nightly walks. Dawn remembers it as “simple, romantic, a pretty good reflection of how things were between us from the very beginning,” she says.