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Fisher & Juban
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Destination Durham by Lauren Moody | by Heba Salama
PHOTO BY JENN ANN
HAPEL HILL NATIVE KARA FISHER MOVED TO CALIFORNIA for a research internship at Stanford University after receiving her bachelor’s degree at Duke. There, she met Romain Juban, a native of Versailles, France, who was a grad student at the time. The short story is: The two saw each other from across the room at a party, talked, danced and fell in love. Two years later, Romain proposed in the middle of a four-mile hike surrounded by the scenic San Francisco Bay. With guests arriving from France, the Netherlands, Boston and California, Kara and Romain chose a Durham wedding with a French touch. “We kept our wedding very French-inspired, but wanted to incorporate the best of North Carolina,” Kara says. Visitors were welcomed at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club the afternoon before the wedding, and Bernard’s Formalwear supplied the tuxedos for the wedding party. The July 16 ceremony was held at Duke Chapel, followed by a candlelit, farm-to-table reception at 21c Museum Hotel. Guglhupf Bakery topped the night off with dessert. “This was a destination wedding for 95% of our guests,” Kara says. “Durham has been so kind to us all to make it a very memorable experience that we will never forget.” She and Romain live in San Mateo, California, where they both work for tech companies in Silicon Valley.
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October/November 2016
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