Xylina & Eric in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Xylina and Eric planned a destination wedding with a funky orange and green color palette, a custom-built dance floor, and an exotic-flavored cake -- all to take place in Mexico with 58 of their closest friends and family. The Bride Xylina Burns, 32, teacher The Groom Eric Osland, 38, mortgage consultant The Date October 29 It's a good thing that Xylina Burns' friend had left her sarong down on Manhattan Beach in California one Sunday. Because when she and another friend walked down to grab it, Xylina, a teacher from Lafayette, CA, met Eric Osland, a mortgage consultant from Santa Barbara, CA, and invited him and his friends up to the bar for mimosas and Bloody Mary's. Eric hung out at the other end of the bar until Xylina finally approached him. When a girl invites you to a bar, you should probably come by her table, she told him. Then he and his friends joined her and her friends. I fell in love with his eyes, he liked how outgoing I was, and the rest is history, she said.

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