Mainers through and through--she's from
Leeds and he's from Turner. High school
sweethearts, Kate and Garth had been
backyard of Kate's parent's house where she grew up.
up at 2:30 a.m. to hike Cadillac Mountain in the dark. As
they watched the sunrise from the summit, Garth popped
the question, much to Kate's surprise. "We had never
even been ring shopping together," Kate says. "He
bought the ring on his own with help from our moms
and his sister."
Biddeford, and was getting ready to start her residency in
friends and family."
ceremony and reception and they didn't want to have to
have time constraints on when the party started and
ended. They also didn't want their family and friends to
have to travel far and pay for hotel rooms. Getting
married in their hometown made perfect sense.
drinks were representative of their favorites and they had
an ice cream sundae bar instead of a traditional wedding
cake. Their guestbook was personalized, too. "We had
sort of grew up together, so we had a welcome table with
a guestbook that had tons of pictures of us over the years
with our friends and families," Kate says.
"The flowers were really
important to me, and
I wanted them