Krisa and Taylor hosted two receptions and focused on the color red to add romance to their wedding in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
The Bride Krisa Warnock, 25, an information assurance specialist
The Groom Taylor Rowland, 26, a bankruptcy specialist
The Date September 20
Though their friendship didn't begin until their freshmen year at Mississippi State University, Krisa and Taylor had been schoolmates since junior high. "I think we had one class together that whole time, and he slept through the whole thing!" Krisa remembers. During their first year at MSU, however, Krisa and Taylor became best friends. "We used to set each other up with our fraternity brothers and sorority sisters, until we finally realized we were wasting our time," she recalls. "We just wanted to be together!" After dinner with his mother and stepfather one Friday night in 2002, Taylor took Krisa to the same spot the two had snuck out to a few years earlier as college students. "He took me back to our spot, we got out of the car and danced to 'How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You' performed by the Jerry Garcia Band. Then he proposed," Krisa excitedly says. "It was all very sentimental and exciting."
-- Jeanine Edwards