Eileen & Dean in Sundance, UT

Dean Lin's mom proposed to Eileen Lee long before he did. The Bride Eileen Lee, a 31-year-old writer and psychiatrist The Groom Dean Lin, 33, a health-care exec The Date May 1 Three months after their blind date, Eileen and Dean set up the anxious-ridden parent meeting. But in this case, their parents' chemistry duplicated the couple's own. Everything happened at warp speed, says Eileen. At the English Rose Garden in Palos Verdes Peninsula (one of Eileen's favorite L.A. retreats), Dean got down on one knee and proposed to his love-at-first-sight sweetheart.

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