Fuchs & Sterlina
POP-UP PROPOSAL
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BY ANNA STONE PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEPHEN THRIFT STEPHENTHRIFTPHOTO.COM
Chapel Hill High School and UNC grad Megan Fuchs has a colleague at the N.C.
Cancer Hospital to thank for introducing
her to her future mother-in-law, Theresa Sterlina. Both thought Megan and Douglas Sterlina would make a good match and a week later, the soon-to-be lovebirds met at a beer fest in Raleigh. Every year Megan’s family attends Theatre in the Park’s “A Christmas Carol,” but in 2014, the tradition was a little more special. During the second act, Scrooge called Megan up on stage, and Doug jumped out of a giant Christmas box to ask Megan a question in front of the entire audience. “It was unbelievable and definitely unforgettable,” Megan says about her stage-fright husband’s proposal. “The fact that he was able to stand 112
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on stage in front of so many people was incredibly romantic and made me feel so loved.” Almost a year later, the couple celebrated with a rehearsal dinner at City Kitchen, a ceremony at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and a reception at The Barn at Fearrington Village. The band Liquid Pleasure kept family and friends on the dance floor all night long. For Megan, one of the highlights of the evening was dancing with her parents, Jeffrey and Karen Fuchs, as her father surprised her with a medley of their favorite songs throughout her life. The couple resides in Durham. Megan works at the N.C. Cancer Hospital as a physician assistant and Doug is an electrical engineer at Plexus. CHM