The Wedding Issue

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If you’re looking to meet your one-and-only, consider running a footrace.
They’ll see you both clean and fresh-faced at the beginning and sweaty and
drained at the end, so if they stick around it’s a good sign. That’s what
happened for Dale Dwelle and Brooks Andrews, who met at the Bay to Breakers race
in San Francisco in 2010.

“It was pretty much love at first sight,” Dale said. “We went on our first
date the next weekend and have been together ever since.”

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Brooks, who grew up in Marietta, popped the question over dinner on the
mountains in Vail, Colorado on New Year’s Day 2014. “I was super nervous but
finally pulled the trigger after dinner and proposed,” he says.

Atlanta’s Swan House at the Atlanta History Center was the choice for the big
day over Memorial Day Weekend 2015—a day that began by defying their wedding
planner. The pair, both avid golfers, got up and played East Lake Golf Club that
morning. “It was against the recommendation of our wedding planner, but we
thought it would be fun and would be good stress relief,” Dale says
laughing.

From there it was time to get ready and take pictures with family at the
wedding venue, followed by a pre-ceremony cocktail hour on the lawn of the Swan
House. “We had this really cool string quartet playing over a DJ accompaniment,
so it was classic strings but over modern day pop music, which really lent to
the beauty of the location,” Dale recalls.

A good friend of the grooms officiated the wedding, which had about 150 in
attendance, while each of their sisters talked about the history of them as
individuals and as a couple.

“There was a really good theme about love and acceptance as far as the theme
of the actual event,” Dale says. From there it was on to the ballroom of the
Atlanta History Center for the reception to dance the night away.

Several moments stood out as special for Brooks, including the first time
they walked into the ballroom to see what wedding planner Christopher Confero
had come up with.

I think we appreciated that we were not capable of choosing flowers and
colors and tying a theme together and all that good stuff,” Brooks says
laughing, “so we got a little sneak peak of it before everybody walked in and
that kind of blew me away. We had just seen a couple of colors on paper but
nothing in real life so that was pretty awesome.”

For Dale it was a moment the couple shared inside the Swan House during the
pre-ceremony cocktail hour. “Amid the chaos of the day, we got a unique
opportunity to really relax and embrace one another and look out on the lawn
below and see all of our guests having drinks. That was the time that I
personally got really emotional and really started crying, and it was good
because that actually allowed me to keep it together during the service.”

Little did the couple know that just one month later, the U.S. Supreme Court
would make marriage equality the law of the land, which just made the experience
all the more sweet.

Once the date got closer, we realized either we were going to be one of the
last couples married illegally or we were going to be one of the first to be
married legally,” says Dale. “We kind of affectionately call it the summer of
love just because it was such a fantastic season.”

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