Kelli & Mark in Tallahassee, FL

Kelli and Mark first met eight years ago somewhere between North-South Drive and Sorority Row at the University of Florida in Gainesville, says Kelli. Though the two can't pinpoint the exact day they met back then, both remember perfectly the date they ran into each other and discovered both had moved to Tallahassee. The two became close friends as well as neighbors, but it was still another three years before they realized, as Kelli says, we had been missing the opportunity to develop a deeper relationship. The Bride Kelli Chestnutt, 26, nonprofit program coordinator The Groom Mark Gebbia, 28, chemical engineer The Date November 4 After a few months of dating, Mark asked Kelli to marry him. And in just five months, Kelli and Mark planned a beautiful wedding in their adopted hometown of Tallahassee.