AUBURN — Steven Gershman and Sofe Silverman met, fell in love and decided to marry, all in one week. How would such a rushed courtship work out? Fabulously. “I’m still pinching myself,” said Sofe, who changed her last name to Gershman after their wedding. “It’s just so amazing and so wonderful.” The couple’s story was […]
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Tying the Knot: SJ story prompts meeting, marriage proposal in a week
AUBURN — On Christmas Eve, something compelled Steven Gershman to buy a copy of the Sun Journal for the first time in a long time. Something made him browse through the dozen short stories about people whose lives had been changed by the power of faith. Something made him stop at Sofe Silverman. “It just […]
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Tying the Knot: Married on a mountain in Maine
NEWRY — Alyssa Marquis had one major requirement for her wedding venue: It had to have amazing photo possibilities. She and her fiance, James Ireland, didn’t have to look too hard. Sunday River was their first and last stop. “I was like, ‘I just want the perfect setting,’” Marquis said. “The second I saw it, […]
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Tying the Knot: Do you take this man’s best friend?
LEWISTON — Andrew Knight never questioned whether his dog, Penny Lane, should be part of his wedding. The answer was obvious. “I said (to my fiancee), ‘Oh, you know what, we should have Penny in the wedding,’ and she just instantly said, ‘Well, yeah, of course.’” So last May, Penny, wearing a little dress, snuggled […]
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Tying the Knot: Flower power
SABATTUS — When Heather Rouillard got married five years ago, she wasn’t thrilled with her wedding flowers. For the price, they were pretty skimpy. Rouillard, who’d graduated with a horticulture degree from Southern Maine Community College a couple of years before, decided she could do better. So she did. Today, she owns and runs The […]
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Tying the knot: Second loves
HEBRON — Online she was “Spunky Nana,” age 67, living in Otisfield. He was “Best Pie Baker,” 70, in Hebron. “Just for the heck of it one night, I went on ChristianMingle.com and his cute little face came up,” Carlyn Kroitzsh said. The cute face belonged to pie baker Jim Kroitzsh. She dropped him a […]
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Tying the Knot: A piece of (wedding) cake
NORWAY — There was the year many brides and grooms wanted their cakes to look tilted. The year gray and yellow wedding cakes ruled. The year it seemed like everyone wanted not a single cake but lots of cupcakes. In her 30 years of making wedding cakes, Dorene Vail has seen it all. And she […]
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Tying the knot: The house that love built
NORWAY — Not every marriage proposal involves hammers, saws and a full work crew. But that’s how John Tester rolls. When Tester popped the question to Sarah Martin on St. Patrick’s Day, he did it at the site of their future home, a house she has been building since January as part of a self-help […]
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Tying the knot: A love story on the farm
Editor’s note: Weddings are meant to be fun and magical. They can often be expensive, stressful and full of surprises. And planning for them can cause the happiest couple to contemplate divorce before even tying the knot. Over the next year, the Sun Journal will run a monthly feature involving local weddings. The brides and […]