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favor. I thought he was going to ask me to iron a shirt.” Instead, he pulled out the ring and asked if she would help him get it resized. THEIR SONG: “Honey Bee” by Blake Shelton, because “every time I left his place to drive home, it was on the radio.” STUPIDEST FIGHT: “I tried to make her bed for her one day. I guess I put the sheet and comforter wrong, because when she saw it, she pulled the covers off the bed and said, ‘Forget it!’ ” PET NAMES: She calls him “honey bee” because of their song. He calls her “ranga,” because his Australian cousins use that nickname for redheads (it’s short for “orangutan”).
Keyona Ham, Jevon Hargett Keyona, 33, is a budget analyst for a government contractor, and a singer and Zumba instructor. Jevon, 37, is a sous chef. They live in Suitland, Md. THE MAIN EVENT: They’ll wed this Sunday in Jamaica. HOW THEY MET: At a house party. Keyona was singing.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: “I turned to my cousin and told him I would have her number by the end of the night.” “I thought, ‘OK, here’s another dude.’ ” FIRST DATE: She visited him at work. He gave her a meal on the house, and she stayed until his shift ended. FIRST KISS: After the fourth date and a long conversation about what they each wanted out of a relationship, when Mint Condition came on the radio. “I wanted to see if he was
real about wanting a relationship,” Keyona says. HOW HE PROPOSED: With the very last present on Christmas Day. “Even though I suspected he would propose, I still did the ugly cry.” WEDDING JITTERS: “I hope Jevon doesn’t get too much of a sunburn the first three days in Jamaica because he’ll be beet-red in all the pictures.” WITH INFINITE FUNDS: They’d have Mint Condition play their reception.
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Fred Joiner, Melanie Spence Fred, 37, is getting his MFA in creative writing. Melanie, 33, works for a public health NGO. They live in D.C. THE MAIN EVENT: A June 8 ceremony at their church in Southwest D.C. Their reception will take place on a charter boat on the river. HOW THEY MET: At a work happy hour. “I noticed some dudes checking her out, but I told her, ‘I’m cuter than they are.’ I had her number by the end of the night.” FIRST DATE: They saw “Radio Golf” at Studio Theatre and then got dinner and dessert at Kramerbooks & Afterwords. FIRST KISS: In his car after their third date. “I was stunned to silence because she totally caught me off my game, but on the inside, I was like, ‘Yes!’ ” HOW HE PROPOSED: In bed, right before she fell asleep. MOST HATED CLOTHING ITEM: Her reindeer pajama pants. PET NAMES: “In the beginning, I called him ‘sugar muffin’.”
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THE MAIN EVENT: The wedding was scheduled for Sunday in Santa Fe, N.M. HOW THEY MET: eHarmony. FIRST DATE: It was supposed to be just coffee. After they realized they’d spent two hours in the Caribou, they decided to get dinner too. HOW HE PROPOSED: “I was having a bad day and he asked me to do him a
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Michael, 38, is a communications systems specialist. Denise, 30, works for a real estate trade association. They live in Fairfax.