We love it when Charleston is the backdrop for a budding romance, and we love it even more when a couple who started here returns for their “I do’s.” So it went with Amanda and Joey, who both...
Chip, a merchant marine, and Ansley, a physical therapist, dated for more than two years after mutual friends introduced them on boat-access-only Morris Island. After many romantic dates (and Chip triumphantly persuading Ansley to trade in her stilettos for Duck boots), the two returned to the island one Sunday afternoon, and he proposed. The pair, both born and raised in the Palmetto State, were married at Stella Maris Roman Catholic Church on Sullivan’s Island and celebrated with a reception downtown at The Cedar Room. After the festivities, they enjoyed a honeymoon in the Caymen Islands. Today they reside in Mount Pleasant.