Marmie & Daniel: A Cultural Wedding in Jamestown, NC

As an operating-room nurse, 29-year-old Marmie is used to a little scream now and then; she also has an affection for roller coasters, of which there are none in her home country of the Philippines. So during a visit to Ocean Park in Hong Kong, 38-year-old American Daniel proposed to Marmie (theirs was a blind date turned long-term courtship) during a terrifying plunge on the park's famed Mine Train. Mid-scream, she said yes. THE BRIDE Marmie Vera Cruz THE GROOM Daniel Wistehuff III THE DATE May 12 According to Marmie, it is customary for a Filipino wedding to take years to plan and to include thousands of guests. Not so for this bride and groom, although the logistics may have been almost as trying. After just having moved across the globe to North Carolina, the couple had only four months to plan their nuptials.