Need a silver lining story? Here’s one: If it weren’t for Hurricane Katrina, Katie and Scott would have never met. When the cataclysmic storm him during Katie’s freshman year at Tulane University,...

Justin, a financial advisor, and Caroline, co-owner of a décor company, met when they least expected it: while studying abroad in Australia during college. After returning to the States, the pair kept in touch and eventually began dating. Five years later, Justin proposed to Caroline on New Year’s Eve during a vacation in the Florida Keys with her family. The couple said “I do” at Charleston’s Lowndes Grove Plantation and plans to honeymoon in Fiji and New Zealand this February.




