Both our bride and groom grew up along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, but in cities over 700 miles apart—Anna in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and Jeff on Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey. When...
Midwesterners Kirstin and Christopher were both busy with their careers when friends and family encouraged them to try online dating. They immediately connected, and after nearly two years of traveling 100 miles to visit each other, Chris proposed. They married at St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church on King Street—where Chris’s father is the pastor emeritus—before a reception at The Mills House.
Photograph by Richard Israel