After two years of long-distance dating (with Winston in San Diego and Mimi in Kansas City) the couple finally ended up together in North Carolina, where Winston was stationed and Mimi was accepted into a medical residency program.
The Bride Mimi Vo, MD, 25, internal medicine resident
The Groom Winston Tavee, MD, 28, flight surgeon for US Marine Corps
The Date August 29
While house hunting together in Wilmington, Winston suggested they explore Wrightsville Beach. "He surprised me with a beautiful pink, blue, and green kite in the shape of a Siamese fish," says Mimi. "I had expressed my desire to fly a kite at the beach during one of our first dates and he remembered!" After sending the kite soaring into the night air, Winston ran toward the ocean to catch it when it began to fall. He called out for Mimi, saying he'd fallen, and she ran to him -- getting tangled up in the kite's string and tripping herself! Before Mimi had time to compose herself, she looked down to see Winston holding a diamond engagement ring twinkling in the moonlight. The sweet proposal became one of the themes for their wedding celebration. Mimi and Winston pulled together two wedding ceremonies and a reception that celebrated Winston's romantic proposal.
-- Alonna Friedman