Vermont Vows Magazine

For Kerry Dvorin and Eric Dorfman, life together has been one surprise after another. The surprises started with their first meeting, when a mutual friend introduced them, and the two New York City residents realized that not only had they grown up on opposite coasts of Florida but also that Eric’s father had actually been one of Kerry’s mom’s graduate school professors.

The second time was the charm for Caitlin Kennedy.

How was Anthony Panebianco supposed to resist? When he stepped onto the elevator at the law firm in Boston where he worked as a real estate attorney and spotted a girl carrying a lifesize wooden deer head, he had to start a conversation with her. Nili Yavin, he discovered, worked as a litigation paralegal in another department.

It took Carrie Van Driel more than five years to fall in love with Ian Wyatt. It took her less than a month to fall in love with Vermont.

Carrie and Ian had been friendly in a casual kind of way since being introduced by a mutual friend in Washington, D.C., after graduation, but it wasn’t until a weekend in New York five years later that they connected romantically.