Janel & Flip in Kansas City, MO

Janel must have made the nice list, because on Christmas Eve, she got quite a stocking stuffer from her boyfriend Philip (Flip). The Bride Janel Naaf, 37 The Groom Flip LaMonica, 35 The Date September 4 Flip enlisted the couple's labradoodle, Loa, as an accomplice, sending the pup trotting over to Janel with an engagement ring tied around her neck on a red ribbon. Nine months later, Janel and Flip, who met as coworkers in the creative department of an ad agency, said I do in a candlelit ceremony under the gothic arches of the Second Presbyterian Church.