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Atkins & Liddon
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by Chandler Carpenter by Amy Stewart
WAYNE ATKINS AND KELLY LIDDON MET WHILE WORKING FOR Washington, D.C.-based Envision, a company that runs youth leadership conferences across the country. “Dwayne and I actually met working a conference in 2011,” Kelly says, and the pair kept in touch before beginning their relationship in 2013. They dated long distance – from D.C. to Durham, where Dwayne lived – until he surprised Kelly with a proposal in 2015. He and Kelly had brunch in D.C. before visiting the Jefferson Memorial. As they walked around the Tidal Basin, Dwayne popped the question, in clear view of the Washington Monument. Their engagement culminated in a classy but casual wedding at the Rio Pinar Golf Club in Kelly’s hometown of Orlando on March 25. Friends and family from around the country – including their parents, Zenobia Atkins of Durham and Dwayne Moore of Emporia, Virginia; and Leslee and Morris E. Liddon Jr. from Orlando – joined the couple. Kelly says that “everything fell into place beautifully.” The newlyweds reside in Durham, where Dwayne works in Student Affairs at Duke University and Kelly works remotely as a program operations coordinator at Envision.
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June/July 2017