Erin & Jeremy: Tying The Knot At The Columbus Museum Of Art

After she swore she'd never date anyone she worked with, Erin met Jeremy at the least likely place...work. The two attorneys hit it off, and Erin had to eat her words, especially after Jeremy's surprise proposal on April 28, 2001. While Erin was getting ready for what she thought would be dinner out with friends, Jeremy asked her to join him in the living room for a moment. "He said that he wanted to go out looking for a new house soon, and he handed me a current real estate book," remembers Erin. "I opened the book to find that he had cut holes in all of the pages to make a 'box' for the ring to sit in. I started crying and Jeremy got down on his knee with roses and champagne."


THE BRIDE Erin Freund, 31, attorney
THE GROOM Jeremy Siegfried, 28, attorney
THE DATE May 18
THE SCENE Ceremony at Trinity Episcopal Church; reception at the Columbus Museum of Art

"Because we wanted to get married in Columbus and neither of our families lives here, Jeremy and I did most of the planning ourselves," says Erin. They booked their church right away, along with the reception site: the Columbus Museum of Art.

Their celebration got off to a wild start when the incense at the altar set off the fire alarms in the church just before the ceremony was to begin. Once everyone had resettled, Erin made her way down the aisle with both of her parents there to give her away. " I don't think that anyone has ever walked down the aisle more slowly than I did," laughs Erin. "I was slightly overcome with the emotion of the moment and couldn't stop crying."

Following a traditional Episcopal wedding mass, the newlyweds made their getaway on a horse-drawn carriage, which took them on a brief tour of downtown -- during which they did lots of snuggling. "The temperature was only 50 degrees, colder than we expected for the middle of May," says Erin. "Jeremy gave me his tuxedo jacket so I could stay warm."

The carriage took them to the Columbus Art Museum where they joined their guests for a cocktail hour, followed by a sit-down dinner that included herb-encrusted tenderloin with mustard glaze, and salmon filet marinated in lemon and herbs. Dessert was a traditional, four-tiered wedding cake with both chocolate and vanilla flavors and raspberry filling.

Everyone hit the dance floor after dinner, grooving to everything from '50s music to today's hits. "The band was fabulous, the best wedding band I have ever heard," remembers Erin. "The majority of our guests danced the entire time the band played."



--Susan Berryman
Photography © Penney Adams and Nicole Dixon


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