Kim & Mike in Oakland, CA

Kim and Mike were good friends in high school, but their friendship became something more when the couple went to the Winter Ball together their senior year. Kim and Mike began dating after the dance and have been together ever since. The Bride Kim Sousa, 26, marketing and events specialist The Groom Mike Powell, 27, project manager The Date July 22 They took the next step in their relationship a few years later on Christmas Eve, when Mike proposed on bended knee in Kim’s bedroom at home. “Although I always knew we’d get married, I was completely stunned,” Kim says. Once the reality set in, Kim applied her event planning know-how to putting together a formal wedding with an elegant pink and black color palette.