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SMITH & STAPP
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BY JORDAN BOWERS PHOTOGRAPHY BY FORAGE + FILM FORAGEANDFILM.COM
Chapel Hill native and Chapel Hill High School grad Morgan Smith met Henry Stapp thanks to a blind date. Morgan had asked her Zeta Tau Alpha sorority big sister to see if anyone in her boyfriend’s fraternity, Sigma Nu, would want to be her date to a cocktail party. She was set up with Henry in January 2012 and they’ve been together ever since. During Morgan’s annual family beach trip in Wilmington, Henry asked Morgan to join him for a walk down the shore where he eventually dropped to one knee and proposed. “It was a great night,” Morgan says. “It was fun to spend the rest of the week at the beach as a newly engaged couple with my family.” On August 27, 2016, the UNC grads said their ‘I do’s’ at University Presbyterian Church followed by a reception at the Carolina Inn. The couple’s favorite part of the evening was at the end when friends and family, including Henry’s mom, Nancy
Lytle Stapp, and Morgan’s parents, Scott and Kelli Smith of
Chapel Hill, gave a nod to UNC. Everyone spontaneously began singing the UNC alma mater and fight song as Morgan and Henry walked out and rode away as husband and wife. The couple now resides in Charlotte. Morgan teaches third grade in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and Henry works as an associate attorney at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. CHM
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