Julie & Jason in Austin, TX

Julie met Jason while they were both graduate students at the University of Massachusetts. The couple's friends had wanted to fix the two of them up, but didn't realize it would be as easy as putting Julie and Jason in the same room. The couple spent hours chatting about their parallel lives, which included studying in the Southwest and their love for desert ecology. They barely spoke to anyone else the entire night. The Bride Julie Choffel, 31, writer The Groom Jason Chang, 29, PhD candidate The Date June 17 Almost four years later, their passion for birds and plants would carry over into the theme of their wedding, popping up on the invitations at the ceremony and on their wedding cake.