Lindsay & John in Irvine, CA

Lindsay and John met the summer before their senior year of college through mutual friends at Muldoon’s Irish Pub in Newport Beach. Despite much northern California/southern California rivalry discussion -- Lindsay is from Silicon Valley and John from Orange County -- the two walked away from the night thinking, “this is someone I could marry.” The Bride Lindsay Jochims, 26, financial analyst The Groom John Raney, 27, law student The Date May 26 Only two months later, John had to travel back to Boston to finish school, but the two decided to continue seeing each other. Three-and-a-half years later, when the couple was living in San Diego, John took Lindsay out on the balcony of the restaurant where they were having dinner and asked that she be his forever. A little more than a year later, they were married in a small chapel on Balboa Island.