Jessica & Jason in Doylestown, PA

A mutual friend was so sure Jessica and Jason would hit it off, she schemed to get a photo of them together at her Thanksgiving dessert party. Why? “So we could show our kids the night we met,” says Jessica. The Bride Jessica Inverso, 30, product administrator and photographer The Groom Jason Stern, 33, dock builder The Date October 3 Just six months later, Jason casually asked Jessica to marry him at 4 a.m. after coming home from bartending. A week later at the same time, he surprised Jessica with his mom’s engagement ring, but it was a size 8—Jessica is a size 5 1/2. For the finale, he asked Jessica to come down for a visit at his bar a week after that. When she arrived, there were roses, dinner and a perfectly sized ring awaiting her—along with his regular customers, cheering and clapping.

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