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Sara Remini and Robby Baucom

Wedding Location: Benson, NC
Wedding Date: May 8, 2010

About Us:
We own a business called "Pick Your Hue Painting"

I first met Robby through mutual friends at an Italian Restaurant in Morrisville, we instantly felt sparks but were casual friends at first, which did not last long before we both knew we were kindred spirits and we immediately started spending a lot of time together. We had been dating about a month when Labor Day weekend approached and Robby asked me to come with him to Florida for the holiday to meet his family. I instantly felt different. I could actually feel my life changing, it was incredible. Of course I agreed to go and meet them all! I think I loved his entire family from the second I met them, his two brothers, two sisters, brother in law, niece, mom and step father were standing in the foyer as soon as we pulled up, I was nervous but not for long. It was a great trip! I got a pedicure with his sister, played with his one year old niece, went jet-skiing and fishing. It was then that we fell in love and moved in together very quickly afterward.

Robby is not an overwhelmingly romantic or showy person, but he always says what he means and you can tell he means what he says, so our engagement was even more incredible! Christmas time was quickly approaching and we had decided we would spend it in Florida with his family. This would be my very first Christmas away from my own family, so it was an adjustment but I was still really looking forward to it! Anyone who knows me knows that my favorite day of the year is Christmas Eve and in my Italian family, this is our big celebration day when all of the gifts are opened and everyone stays up late. Robby had mentioned that to honor my family's tradition he and I would exchange our gifts on Christmas Eve and I happily agreed! A few days before we left for Florida we were visiting my Mom and I saw she and Robby speaking in low voices out front of our house while he was helping her with packages, my detective senses were working overtime and I was anxious at what this could be about. Later that night I grilled my Mom for any information, but she just said they were talking about a gift he had gotten me and if it was the right one. I mentioned something about an engagement and she quietly told me that I should just relax and have a great time in Florida and that I shouldn't worry about all of that, she said there would be plenty of time for talk about marriage down the road. I took her advice to heart and just appreciated our first Christmas together, and we left for Florida in the car the day before Christmas Eve.

We arrived and everything was great, we were spending time with his family and our new Min Pin puppy we had adopted one month earlier who went with us on our family holiday. On Christmas Eve, we had dinner over at Robby's Grandparents home and opened gifts. His two younger siblings (twins) (18yearsold) left in a quick hurry after they tore through their gifts like a whirlwind and sped off for home. I thought this to be odd, and when I asked Robby's Mom why they had left so soon, she wouldn't really answer me, just quickly changed the subject. Left with no ride home since the twins had left us, we went home about an hour later with Robby's parents. Immediately when we got in the car, a cell phone started ringing and Robby's step dad answered and said only "The Chicken is in the coop" and hung up. Realizing I had only known this family a few months, I decided that they just might be a little "different" and I shook it off as nothing. Repeatedly on the way home Robby's Mom was pointing out to me what seemed like really trivial non-sensual things like "Look Sara there are people at Walgreen's!" or, "look, a yellow car!" again, I shook it off laughing. The sun was just about setting when we began to pull into the drive and again, the cell phone was ringing, this time the greeting to the mysterious caller was "The Chicken IS IN the pot" no sooner did the car stop that Robby was running for the house and he was quickly out of sight. I thought the twins were somehow getting in trouble and he was going to see what they were up to. Once inside with Robby's parents in tow, Robby's step dad suggested we open up the bottle of my native Long Island Bordeaux I had brought and I instantly agreed! I was having a strange night!!! It was about 15 minutes later that Robby appeared and said: "Hey you want to walk down to the dock, get some air for a minute" I thought this was a great idea, so wine glass in hand in hand we descended down the lawn to the dock where we had previously done all of that fishing and jet skiing, I was happy to be back here. As we got closer and the sun dipped lower I saw something in the distance out on the pier, closer inspection revealed candles, lots of candles lining the entire path up the dock, I squinted my brow and looked closer to find rose petals strewn everywhere! They were even lapping up at the shore! I was breathless and by the time I could turn to Robby he was down on one knee, box open twinkling in the evening sun. I think I said yes AS he was asking the question! I was crying and laughing at the same time, I got down and pulled him up to me and felt him waving his right arm in the air, I said "whets going on?" and he said in a very loud voice: "there are supposed to be fire..." and as he said it, I heard rustling in the bushes behind us and then one after the next, fireworks flew through the evening sky, the whole family was in on the entire production from beginning to end and the twins had set off for home early so they could carefully orchestrate Robby's plans. The rose petals were hand picked by the twins from their grandmothers rose garden!!!! It was the most memorable unbelievable day of my life, and only one thing was missing. My parents weren't there! When we went back into the house I immediately dialed my Moms number to find her already laughing and giddy on the other end, He DID talk to my Mom that night outside the house, even showed her the ring!!!! They were all in on it!!!

We are going to have our wedding and reception at Preston Woodall House in Benson, elegant and charming, its going to be both unique and fabulous!!!

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