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Miss Strickland engaged Johnson and Guizani to wed at The Via Club to marry Mr. Ashworth
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risten Michelle Johnson, 26, of Mechanicsville, Virginia, and Mohamed Aziz Guizani, 25, of Bizerte, Tunisia, would like to announce their marriage. The couple originally eloped in 2014 but are now having the wedding celebration with family and friends in Mechanicsville, Virginia. The ceremony will be held at The Via Club at Pebble Creek on Saturday, August 27, 2016, with a reception to follow. The bride is the daughter of David and Sandra Johnson and Jean Tate Johnson of Mechanicsville. Her grandparents are the late Hugh and Vivian Johnson and Bernard and Bernice Tate of Mechanicsville. She is the youngest of four siblings with one niece. The bride graduated from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia with a Bachelor of Science. She currently works as a Paralegal at a law firm in Los Angeles, California, and will continue her education to pursue Human Rights Law. The groom is the son of Mohamed Habib and Monia Guizani of Bizerte, Tunisia. He is the youngest of three siblings with one nephew. He graduated from the Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis University in Tunisia with a degree in Business Management and continues
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r. and Mrs. David J. Strickland of Mechanicsville, Virginia, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Stephanie Megan Strickland, to Mr. John Reid Ashworth, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Munford Ashworth of Mechanicsville. The bride is the granddaughter of Mrs. Cyd Everett of Sterling, Virginia, and the late Mr. Herbert R. Miller, Mrs. Diane Peyton of Tampa, Florida, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Strickland of Fredericksburg, Virginia. The groom is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. John Allen Gorman of Forest, Virginia, and The Honorable L. Ray Ashworth of Richmond, Virginia, and the late Anne Munford Ashworth, formerly of Richmond. Stephanie graduated from James Madison University and works as a Project Manager at The Martin
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STEPHANIE STRICKLAND and REID ASHWORTH to be united in marriage in November Agency. Reid graduated from Virginia Tech and is a Project Designer at Dominion
Resources. A November wedding is planned in Richmond.
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MR. and MRS. MOHAMED AZIZ GUIZANI the former Kristen Michelle Johnson to pursue Pharmacy. The couple currently
The Mechanicsville Local
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resides in Los Angeles, California.
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