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    Kelsey Borresen

    Kelsey Borresen

    Senior Reporter, HuffPost Life

  • Man Proposes To High School Sweetheart After Her Last Chemo Session

    Lucas D'Onofrio's girlfriend Tamara was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in February. If that wasn't already cause for celebration, D'Onofrio made the day extra special by planning a surprise proposal for her at Boca Raton Regional Hospital. "My mind during the proposal was completely blank, I was just trying not to cry," D'Onofrio told The Huffington Post.

  • This Is What Happens To Your Heart Rate When You Propose

    There are certain moments in life that could make anyone's heart race. On Monday, GOOD Magazine posted a data visualization to YouTube that shows how one man's heart rate increased and decreased before, during and after he popped the question to his girlfriend in Rome. The proposer, Redditor sesipikai, was wearing a heart rate monitor belt at the time, which measured the beats per minute.

  • Wedding Announcements From The Not-Too-Distant Future

    Here is a preview of the wedding section of tomorrow. Jenna Howard and Nitin Gill met during the “dad bod” craze of 2015, which briefly allowed Mr. Gill, a 5, a shot with Ms. Howard, a 7. Ms. Howard first approached Mr. Gill after noticing his smallish biceps and overall resemblance to a burrito wearing a belt.

  • Meet The Lovable Couple Who Got Married And Went Viral On The Same Day

    A day before their wedding, an emotional video of Kristie Scherrer and Tavis Doucette aging 70 years in six minutes (thanks to makeup and prosthetics) hit the Internet. The collaboration between YouTube channels Cut Video and Field Day quickly became a viral sensation with more than 14 million views. "We realized it was released when we were on our way to our rehearsal," Scherrer told The Huffington Post.

  • This Creative Bride And Groom Had A Bunch Of Puppets Officiate Their Wedding

    Los Angeles couple Tammy Caplan and Joe Gold are actors, writers and independent filmmakers. Caplan told The Huffington Post that they both were fans of "Sesame Street" and the Muppets growing up. "Joe and I wrote the ceremony fairly quickly," she said.

  • This Owl Ring Bearer Is A 'Harry Potter' Fan's Dream Come True

    This dashing ring bearer was a real hoot. Groom Shaun Palmer surprised his bride Adele and all of their guests by having an owl named Bilbo carry the rings down the aisle at their July 2014 wedding in Roker, Sunderland, United Kingdom. Palmer told The Huffington Post that he first came up with the idea to have an owl ring bearer after seeing it advertised at a wedding show a couple years before their nuptials and thought it would be an awesome way to surprise his bride.

  • George Clooney On His Proposal To Amal: 'I Literally Dropped It On Her'

    For a man who was once thought to be an eternal bachelor, it sure didn't take George Clooney long to realize he wanted to be with Amal Alamuddin for life. "It happened pretty quickly," the actor told "CBS This Morning's" Charlie Rose in an interview that aired Tuesday. Clooney said he proposed to the human rights attorney at home with his Aunt Rosemary's records playing in the background.

  • Man Pulls Off Aca-Amazing Proposal For His 'Pitch Perfect'-Obsessed Girlfriend

    Unless you count singing in the shower, Max Podell has no vocal experience whatsoever. At a friend's birthday party on May 8, Max and eight of his buddies sang along to the Treblemakers‘ finale performance from the first movie for his girlfriend Lindsay Versage. Lindsay puts the music on almost every time we are in the car together.

  • Watch This Sweet Couple Age 70 Years In Six Minutes

    A month before their wedding, engaged couple Kristie Scherrer and Tavis Doucette participated in a fun and surprisingly emotional experiment. Cut Video collaborated with Field Day on the sweet six-minute video, which shows Kristie and Tavis -- currently in their late 20s -- as people in their... "There's some strange, comforting feeling seeing him this way," Kristie says.

  • This New Wedding Magazine Is The Answer To Our Feminist Prayers

    Liz Susong and Carly Romeo, founders of the new Catalyst Wedding Magazine, felt it was time the bridal industry had a "feminist disruption." Their magazine, which launches later this month, aims to do just that. Instead of just featuring the white, wealthy heterosexual couples that usually grace the pages of popular bridal publications, Catalyst celebrates the underrepresented: people of color, diverse bodies, same-sex couples and the many, many people who can't spend anywhere close to $40,000 on a wedding. "Carly and I see a need for a magazine that publishes real, authentic love celebrations and diverse love stories that doesn't allow advertising revenue to drive its content," Susong told The Huffington Post.

  • This DIY 'Harry Potter' Wedding Will Leave You Positively Spellbound

    For Vancouver couple Emma and Greg Gavelis, Harry Potter has practically been a third member of their relationship. Emma, who has two Harry Potter tattoos, was smitten. "Harry Potter has played such a big part in us falling in love, that it only seemed fitting to have it be a big part of our wedding and the rest of our love story," Emma told The Huffington Post.

  • The Unorthodox And Awesome Way Modern Couples Are Getting Engaged

    With an estimated 2.6 million newly engaged couples a year (and that's just those who update Facebook), that's a lot of proposals leaning on outdated traditions. A handful of couples have invented an entirely new way of proposing marriage that feels wholly modern, and they call it Engagement Day.

  • 13 Lies We Need To Stop Telling Women About Marriage

    You'd think we'd evolve past it, but young women are still implicitly taught that the only way to succeed is to find a husband and fulfill our "princess" role, as Rashida Jones once called it. There's still a presumption that there is some clear-cut divide between "single" and "taken," as Ann Friedman aptly noted at Talking Points Memo.

  • This Woman Loves Flash Mob Proposals, But What Her Girlfriend Planned Was Even Better

    Adelia Dunbar has always loved flash mob proposals. "I thought of doing a flash mob video, but honestly Adelia and I are both pretty introverted, so thinking of orchestrating a giant dance party in front of everybody scared me a little," Baysinger, who lives with her now-fiancée in Hamden, Connecticut, told The Huffington Post. Instead, Baysinger reached out to the couple's parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, pets and friends, asking them to record video of themselves dancing and encouraging Dunbar to say "yes."  Baysinger then pieced it all together and set the adorable video montage to the song "I Do" by Colbie Caillat.

  • Couple's Surprise Wedding Dance To MKTO's 'Classic' Is Positively Infectious

    Bride Nicole Kuchenbecker had always dreamt of surprising her guests with a choreographed dance on her wedding day. Groom Kyle Kuchenbecker, on the other hand, has spent his life avoiding the dance floor at all costs. "Nobody -- not even Kyle's family -- knew about this dance except for my parents," Nicole told The Huffington Post.

  • This Couple's Wes Anderson-Inspired Save-The-Date Video Is Wonderful, Whimsical Perfection

    Wes Anderson Inspired Save The Date Video: Hell Yes Jon & Jess from Jon Sukarangsan on Vimeo. Friends of Jon Sukarangsan and Jess Lau are always calling them the "creative couple." So when it came time to send out save-the-dates for their September 2015 wedding, they knew a run-of-the-mill paper card just wasn't going to cut it. "We don't always have the same taste in everything, but one thing we always agree on is that Wes Anderson's aesthetic is brilliant," the bride-to-be told The Huffington Post.

  • This Proposal Photo Was Shot Outside In The Middle Of Winter

    Earlier this year, New York City photographer Justin Bettman received a romantic email from a stranger named Jose, asking him to help plan and execute a surprise marriage proposal for his girlfriend on Valentine's Day. Bettman is the man behind the #SetintheStreet photo project, in which he builds sets on city sidewalks with unwanted or thrown away materials and furniture. "The story we came up with was that Jose submitted himself for a photo shoot casting and out of hundreds of people, he was picked," Bettman explained to The Huffington Post.

  • Captivating Underwater Engagement Photos Will Leave You Breathless

    Wedding photographers and married couple Adam and Shawn-Marie Ravazzano had wanted to shoot underwater engagement photos since moving to Maui last year. In March, the Ravazzanos, of  Love and Water Photography, found the perfect subjects in their friends and real-life engaged couple Leiha'aheo Kamahele-Beeck and Maika Dias of Oahu. Interestingly enough, Kamahele-Beeck and Dias met underwater in the spring of 2013 while they were snorkeling in Oahu.

  • 12 Couples Who Ignored Expectations And Did Their Weddings Their Way

    The $50 billion wedding industry would have us think that in order to celebrate your special day, you need to tick off certain boxes: white dresses, formal tuxes, bouquets and bouquets of flowers, religious vows, toasts and countless more expectations. Whether it's aiming to cut back on the astronomical costs or just trying for something more reflective of their true personalities, these couples show us that a wedding doesn't have to fit into a box.

  • NPR Reporter Drives Chinese Couple 500 Miles To Rural Wedding

    In this, the second installment in the series, I decided to drive two men and one of their fiancees back home to Hubei province in central China for Chinese New Year, and to attend their weddings. Here we are at a rest stop along the Shanghai-Chongqing highway — a smooth, four-lane road that was finished just five years ago.