For Stephanie Matthews, it was love at first date.
“I knew right away I was going to marry him,” says the Orem bride of her now-hubby Dane Thomas. “I called my mom and told her he was the one.”
And when you know, you know.
So after three months of dating, the pair spent their happiest moment in [...]

BRIDE AND GROOM Jenna Oldroyd and Brady Jardine BRIDE’S HOMETOWN Orem GROOM’S HOMETOWN Twin Falls, Idaho BRIDE’S OCCUPATION Secretary at Central Valley Machine/student at USU GROOM’S OCCUPATION USU basketball player/student WEDDING LOCATION Mount Timpanogos LDS Temple HOW YOU MET We met after a Utah State University volleyball game. I [...]

Heather Eagleston always planned on having a year-long engagement.
But that was before she met Tyler Beus.
Heather dated the Woodland Hills-raised boy for eight months, and they were planning on getting married a year later in June 2010. But then Tyler had a job opportunity with the military come up in Iraq (he’d already been deployed [...]

It was the spring of 2008, and Heather Barker had her hands full. Not only did she have a boyfriend, she was writing an LDS missionary.
But then came Dan Yeates.
“We were living in Raintree Apartments in Provo when we met,” says the Elk Ridge bride. “My mom’s maiden name is Yates, and so that got [...]

Megan Brockbank and Derek Welling know what it means to “meet cute.”
A year after the pair had crushes from afar (Megan had a boyfriend when they first met), Derek showed up to her apartment door with a plate of homemade brownies in hand. (Yes, homemade.)

When David Larsen first met Orem’s Ashleigh Smith, he wasn’t about to let her get away.
“He stepped on my foot, and he wouldn’t get off,” Ashleigh laughs. “I think he thought it was a chair.” The chance encounter was unforgettable, but in this “boy meets girl” scenario, David (ironically) didn’t have a leg to stand on.

Before she became the “little Mrs.,” Provo’s Jessica Reichman was the “little sis.”
Derek Olthuis — Jessica’s hubby-to-be — was friends with her older brother, but it was only a matter of time before his Reichman allegiances changed.

Feb. 22, 2008
Photography by Ryan Pearson Photography
by Breanna Bennett
Brody and Kaylyn Billings are living happily ever after, but Kaylyn isn’t your typical princess. She resembles the strong-willed, determined Belle a little more than the submissive, dreamy Cinderella. She even wore a red winter cape on her wedding day that she says made her feel [...]