Emily & Greg in Augusta, GA

Although they'd been friends since freshman year at the University of Notre Dame, it wasn't until a conversation at a bar during senior year that Emily and Greg saw potential for a relationship. After a first date of ice-skating and burgers, they were inseparable. The Bride Emily Wolf, 27, law student The Groom Greg Ladky, 28, sports media producer and reporter The Date May 31 Nearly five years later, the couple spent Christmas with Emily's family at Barnsley Gardens Resort in Rome, Georgia. While the two were taking an evening stroll through the candlelit ruins of the original plantation house, Greg popped the question. Back at their cottage, Emily's family was waiting to pop the champagne. Over the next year and half, Emily balanced law school in Ohio and planning their wedding in her hometown of Augusta.