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Whitney Swaffield & A.K. Walker
Wolfeboro, NH, August 14, 2010
by Cheryl Kimball
Photography by Emilie Inc.
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 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
He an assistant ski team coach and she a competitive skier at Plymouth State College, Whitney and AK dated for five years before he proposed—to her complete surprise—in the romantic setting of Nubble Lighthouse in York, Maine. They planned an August 2009 wedding and both knew immediately that the site of their nuptials would be the 17-acre lakeside spread her grandmother lives on in Wolfeboro—where her parents were married in 1972. But two months prior to the date, Whitney’s mother was scheduled for heart transplant surgery. The big but easy decision to postpone the wedding a year meant that Whitney’s mom, now healthy, was able to fully participate in the festivities. After three years in the making, a gorgeous day unfolded with everything, Whitney says, “turning out exactly as I had hoped.”
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