It’s a love story that all started with a dog. When Langley Barton Garoutte lived in San Antonio after graduating college, she kept on seeing a man very patiently walking his elderly beagle dog. Getting the A-OK from the older women on the block who had also noticed him, Langley invited him to a...
Read MoreLast year, Elisabeth McGuigan Gray got an early birthday gift. It was July 5, the day before her birthday, and the same night of the Tim McGraw/Faith Hill concert they were going to in New Orleans. Before the concert, Brian Lee Laborde, her boyfriend, told Elisabeth that he had an early birthday...
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Dottee and Mac
The custom of the single woman who catches the wedding bouquet is the next one to marry proved apt for Dorothy Butler Ives Dupuy. Better known...
A wedding is a celebration of love, commitment and joy—a special occasion that unites family and friends. In these post-Katrina times, weddings remind us that this most traditional of occasions can still play an important part in the fabric of a community. And the weddings showcased on these pages...
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Allison and Ben
When Allison Aden Berger met Benjamin (Ben) Bradley Tiller at a friend’s wedding, little did she know that they had just missed...
The rhyme “rain, rain go away, come again some other day,” took on a significant meaning for the wedding of Katherine (Katie) Folwell Baldwin and Brandon Scott Key. A heavy rain fell the evening of their Dec. 30 wedding—and in fact delayed the ceremony when the wedding coordinator, Claudia...
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