Rebecca & Elliot in Washington, DC

Rebecca and Elliot met their freshman year at Duke University. They lived in the same dorm and, as they were studying in the same program, met their very first day of classes. The two were good friends from the start and soon became more than that. After graduation, both relocated to New York. The Bride Rebecca Kristol, 24, project manager The Groom Elliot Silver, 25, lawyer The Date May 27 There, five years after they had started dating, Rebecca arrived to meet Elliot and his family for dinner and found no one was at the restaurant. She called Elliot, who said their plans had changed and that they were at a different place down the block. It turns out it was just him waiting, and he had reserved a private room inside the romantic French restaurant just for them. After asking Rebecca to marry him, Elliot surprised her once again -- with two plane tickets to the Bahamas to celebrate their engagement.