Heather & Tony in Sauk Centre, MN

“She’s always been one step ahead of me,” admits Tony of his courtship with Heather. When they met as students in Maine, Tony loved Heather’s intelligence, energy, and beauty -- but felt too shy to ask her out. “What I didn’t know was that Heather also had an interest in me. She would walk by the college newspaper where I was an editor and peek in the doorway,” Tony says. The Bride Heather Taylor, 24,marketing executive The Groom Tony Saucier, 26, PR executive The Date June 25 After one long night of studying together, Heather made the first move, suggesting confidently that Tony should take her out to dinner. “I was a little caught off guard at first, and I tried to laugh it off,” Tony says. “But then I thought, ‘Yeah—I should take her out to dinner!’” A few years later, Tony finally got the jump on Heather, arranging a sweet surprise proposal at Pierre’s in Minneapolis, their newly adopted hometown. “She kept saying, ‘You’re really doing this?’” he remembers. There’s nothing better than getting a step ahead -- especially when it’s a step in the right direction.