Anchorage Daily News tells the love story of Holly Caraway and Ross Kennedy of Anchorage, AK, who met and fell in love via eHarmony.
They registered on eHarmony. com about a year ago and quickly rejected all the other wannabes. After a couple weeks of e-mails and phone calls, they met when Kennedy lost a bet on the 2007 Super Bowl. He put his money on the Bears; she bet on the winning Colts. So he picked up the tab for Mongolian barbecue on their first date.
“eHarmony is a thoughtful approach to dating someone,” said Caraway, 24. “It matches peoples’ morals and characters. It’s sort of a pretest to see if they qualify.”
… [Her] wilderness moxie is partly the reason Kennedy, 26, was drawn to her profile when it surfaced as a match with his. He was an avid hunter of deer, pheasants and quail in his home state of Kansas and was looking for someone “outdoorsy” to do things with when he signed up on eHarmony.
Although Caraway is a sourdough, Kennedy is a relatively new transplant to Alaska. Fed up with the limited job opportunities in Kansas, he and a buddy drove to Valdez in the dead of winter in 2005. …
He met Caraway just before Valentine’s Day last year, and they ordered the engagement ring from eBay by fall. Kennedy proposed on bended knee at Beluga Point on a cold, windy night after dinner at The Bridge.
“I couldn’t feel my hands or nose; it was Oct. 4; we were freezing,” Caraway said. “It was perfect.”
These days, the happy couple spends every spare minute getting ready for their big day. A wedding magazine cover helped them set the theme. …
They’ve sent 150 handmade invitations, and wine for their reception is ripening at Denali Winery. When it’s ready, they’ll pour it into unmarked bottles and affix their own labels. …
And the wedding music? “We’re playing the theme song from eHarmony for the recessional, ‘This Will Be an Everlasting Love,’ ” Caraway said. “When we walk back down the aisle, that will be our song.”
Read the rest of their love story, dated 11 February 2008
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