Marisa & Shel in Big Timber, MT

Orange accents, wildflowers, and berry cheesecakes helped make Marisa and Shel's wedding at a sheep farm in Montana a vibrant colorful affair. The Bride Marisa LaDou, project manager The Groom Richard Sheldon Huston Jr. (known as Shel), aviation insurance executive The Date August 11 Sometimes, when you least expect it, love just happens! So began the invitations to the wedding of Shel and Marisa. For this couple, love happened thanks to the efforts of a perceptive mutual friend. My friend kept trying to set me up with her boyfriend's best friend, says Marisa. But Shel and I were both such independent people and such homebodies that only one of us would go out when she invited us, and never both of us on the same night. After six months of such near-misses, the two turned up in the same group at a dinner. We haven't left each other's sides since, says Marisa.