FEATURED WEDDINGS & ENGAGEMENTS

• NAGASE, 27, AND IBANEZ, 32

  By CHRISTOFER CASSUTO

  November 23, 2008 - Oct. 31 - It was love on the high seas for Raul Ibanez and Yurika Nagase, who opted to dress up as pirates for their Halloween wedding. "Raul is from Spain and I am from Japan," says Nagase, a product manager for Niwaka. "We don't celebrate Halloween there, so we thought the Hallowedding would be unsual and uniquely American...more >

  

• ADAMS, 28, AND HASKINS, 29

  By ALISA WOLFSON

  November 23, 2008 - Nov. 1 - Too bad Joy Adams wasn't wearing sneakers with her wedding gown. When the bride's limo failed to show up on her big day, she had no choice but to hoof it! Lucky for Adams, who works at Brookhaven National Lab, it was only two blocks from where she got ready to Bethany Baptist Church in Queens, where Devin Haskins, a cement and...more >

  

• FALLER, 27, AND BRANDOW, 27

  By CHRISTOFER CASSUTO

  November 23, 2008 - Oct. 11 - Forget Paris! For newlyweds Megan Faller and Adam Brandow, Vienna is the most romantic city. While studying abroad, the Manhattan duo met on a train in Austria and bonded over their common love of the country. "We became best friends right away," says Faller, a doctoral candidate in history at Georgetown Univeristy. "But...more >

  

• POTENZA, 30, AND FEBUS, 30

  By JENNIFER TIS

  November 16, 2008 - Oct. 12 - Forget about first-date jitters - Marybeth Potenza had a much bigger fear the first time she met Michael Febus. The Queens duo was at a leadership retreat, where one challenge involved jumping from a tree to a trapeze. "I'm afraid of heights, but I did it because I liked Mike and didn't want to look like a chicken,"...more >

  

• CIAGO, 22, AND BYRD, 26

  By ALISA WOLFSON

  November 16, 2008 - Sept. 27 — It was a walk in the park for Joel Byrd when he popped the question to Jennifer Ciago — really! In April, the couple headed to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, which Byrd, a computer programmer and web designer for TD Ameritrade in Jersey City, had arranged to have opened early just for the special occasion. “Near one...more >