WellWed on the Cape

For Audra Bodenstab and Tripp Boyle, there was no question where they’d celebrate their wedding: Nantucket was the clear choice. They had met at The University of Massachusetts Amherst in the spring of Audra’s sophomore year, when Tripp was visiting his younger sister, Lizzy, who was also a student. Audra and Lizzy were friends, but she had never met Tripp until she ran into him at a party. Without realizing their shared connection, they spotted each other, introduced themselves, and shared a kiss, all in a few magical hours.

Rachel Avan doesn’t like banana bread, but she didn’t confess that fact to David Chmielewski until they had been dating for a number of years.

Will Gibbons cannot keep a secret. Julie Fellows knew what was up the minute she checked in with her boyfriend by phone. “What’s up?” she asked. “Nothing! I can’t tell you! I have to go!” a frazzled Will replied. A few days later, and none too subtly, Will insisted on taking Julie shopping for a new outfit to wear to his fraternity’s annual Sweetheart Ball.

It’s no surprise that Virginia Wise and Brian Hobin decided to celebrate their wedding by the sea. After all, many of the landmark moments in their relationship occurred right on the beach.

Alissa Cohen was frustrated. She’d just gotten the most romantic proposal she could imagine. During the years she had been dating Aaron Mandell, he’d communicated a number of important messages on postcards from Paris. He’d written on one to tell Alissa he loved her for the first time. He’d used a postcard to ask Alissa to move in with him. And now he’d given her another postcard telling her how much he loved her before asking her to marry him on a deserted Nantucket beach. She had never been so happy.

When Caroline Gagel spotted a package on her doorstep one day, she assumed it was a recent Amazon.com order and opened it without a second thought. Instead of the books she’d been expecting, however, Caroline discovered a leather-bound portfolio with an appraisal for an engagement ring inside. Since she had been dating her boyfriend, Chris Goodchild, for six years and knew that he’d planned a romantic dinner for that upcoming weekend, it didn’t take much effort for Caroline to put the pieces together. What did take effort was keeping her discovery to herself.