OBAMA, 29, AND GIBSON, 27

By LARISA DANCZUK
October 7, 2007 - AUG. 10 - Libria Gibson and Erick Obama met through Yahoo! Personals eight years ago "at a time when e-mail was new and popular," says the bride. What started out as an pen-pal friendship between Gibson, a student at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and Obama, a junior architect for Bay Ridge's...

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• MARDEN, 26, AND SHAPIRO, 28

  By ALANA NEWTON

  October 7, 2007 - AUG. 18 - In 2003, after meandering through the city for hours without pause, first-year law students, Stephanie Shapiro and Jonathan Marden realized they had something special. "We ended up stopping to talk at the Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park," remembers the bride - the very same spot Marden proposed in 2006. The couple...more >

  

• MOLINA, 46, AND GANGONE, 29

  By CHRISTOFER CASSUTO

  October 7, 2007 - JULY 7 - Julia Gangone and Samuel Molina have been hearing wedding bells for a decade. "The very first week we started dating, we talked about getting married in 10 years," says Gangone, a medical assistant living in Brooklyn. As planned, Gangone and Molina, a custodial supervisor at the Brooklyn Public Library, wed at St. Dominic Roman...more >

  

• LAZAROU, 29, AND MANSFIELD, 34

  By LARISA DANCZUK

  October 7, 2007 - JULY 21 - Brian Mansfield woke up on Aug. 4, 2006, with plans to propose to Crystal Lazarou in Central Park, but was so excited that he couldn't even wait for her to get out of bed. Still, the abandoned proposal site became their wedding destination, as they exchanged vows the following summer at the park's Bethesda Fountain. "I never...more >

  

• ZELLER, 24, AND AVOLIO, 24

  By MARINA VATAJ

  September 23, 2007 - JULY 1 - Scott Zeller and Jeanette Avolio grew up in the same town, but didn't meet until stuffed animals brought them together. "We had all the same friends, but never met until we were both hired at a new teddy bear store," says Avolio, a high school social studies teacher in Staten Island, of Zeller, a substitute teacher in Staten...more >

  

• WADE, 26, AND SOUHRADA, 26

  By CHRISTOFER CASSUTO

  September 23, 2007 - JUNE 30 - Marriage is all about compromises, but for Jeffrey Wade and Laurie Souhrada, when it comes to baseball, it's war. "Jeff is originally from Boston and is a huge Red Sox fan, so we wore Red Sox jerseys when we were introduced at the reception," says Souhrada, an occupational therapist. However, "later that night, the...more >