shoes with a silver permanent marker. Tradition says that
the name that remains at the end of the night is the name
of the next girl to get married.
Hood from across the room at
Three Dollar Deweys--a local
bar in Portland's Old Port. "I saw
That's the type of guy I'm looking for!' And
I actually got him," Laura says.
Afghanistan on his mid-tour leave. He took
her on a trip to California to show her the
house he grew up in before his father, a
retired Navy Lieutenant, took a job at Bath
Iron Works and moved the family to Maine.
nado Island where he popped the question.
When he headed back to finish his tour of
duty in Afghanistan, Laura started surfing
the net for online wedding tools when she
came across the Real Maine Wedding of the
Year contest.
4-years-old and my mother asked me what I
wanted for Christmas, I told her I wanted to
be a bride. She had my grandmother make
me a little wedding dress and I wore it until
it was bursting at the seams!"
"Nolan and I are a real Maine couple," she
says. "We had all of our dates in Maine, we
fell in love here, and it's where we wanted to
get married."
Nolan. In the video she says, "My fiancé is the
bravest, strongest, most handsome, beautiful
inside and out man that I know. And he's my
best friend in the entire world."
favorite of the
four, Laura and Nolan's video got the most
votes from the public and was the overall
winner.
announcement of the winning couple. Nolan
was still in Afghanistan, so Laura brought
her family and friends along for support.
When it was announced that Laura and
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