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Jessica McMenamin & Tim Wrightington
Endicott Estate, MA, June 11, 2010
by Stacy Marcus
Photography by Studio Nouveau
After connecting on match.com, Fallon and Bill met for a drink in April 2009. Although she was initially skeptical about online dating, the pair hit it off instantly. An in-person meeting for a quick drink turned into a five-hour conversation that ended only because the bar closed. By October, Bill was spreading a blanket for a picnic, uncorking a bottle of wine, reciting a love letter he crafted, and asking Fallon to marry him. “It just felt right,” she says.
Fallon chose to return to her hometown of Duxbury, Massachusetts, to tie the knot. An ocean-side estate across the street from Fallon’s childhood home was the perfect setting to celebrate the couple’s love of the outdoors amidst their favorite colors of green and blue
After a ten-year courtship that started in high school, Tim planned to ask Jessica for her hand in marriage at the site of their annual apple-picking excursion in Nashoba Valley. When a hailstorm the day before caused the orchard to cancel apple picking for the day, Tim quickly shifted gears, deciding to propose at a really cool sandwich shop—only to learn that they had closed 15 minutes earlier. Switch again, now to what he had hoped would be a romantic stroll along a stream—that had somehow turned into a swamp. Tim just got down on one knee, bumbled over his words, and suddenly the couple was photographing their glee at getting engaged. And so begins the story of Jessica and Tim’s dream wedding...
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