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seppenfields TIFFANY + JONATHAN
When a hometown friendship turns into a romance, the big day is filled with two lifetimes of shared memories. BY KEVIN BROADY PHOTOS BY LINDSEY ZITZKE PHOTOGRAPHY
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hile Tiffany Broughton and Jonathan Seppenfield are both from Shelbyville and had mutual friends who hung out together, the two never truly connected until their sophomore year at the University of Kentucky. It all started after he invited her over one night for dinner. “We’ve spent just about every day together since then,” says Tiffany. “We should have known being ‘just friends’ wasn’t in the cards for us, and I am so thankful for that. Jonathan’s proposal was unique and filled with imagination. His dad worked at Woodford Reserve Distillery for 25 years. “Jonathan told me that Woodford was throwing his dad a 25th anniversary dinner and it would be a pretty fancy event. That we would get to sign a bourbon barrel that the family would get to
keep,” the bride recalls. “The night of the dinner, we arrived at Woodford Distillery, drove around to the back and a guard waved us on through. No cars were around so I figured we were early, which we typically are. We went into the warehouse and there was a barrel with a bottle of Woodford sitting on it. The head of the barrel said, ‘Jonathan and Tiffany December 4th, 2016.’ I was still so confused. I looked closer and engraved on the bottle of Woodford was, ‘Tiffany, will you marry me?’” She turned around and Jonathan was on one knee with the most beautiful ring she’d ever seen. “After I managed to mumble ‘Yes,’ he told me that a photographer was hiding in the warehouse capturing the moment and our families would be joining us for a catered dinner,” she says. “It was the perfect night.”
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