Need a silver lining story? Here’s one: If it weren’t for Hurricane Katrina, Katie and Scott would have never met. When the cataclysmic storm him during Katie’s freshman year at Tulane University,...
Charleston natives Jack and Haleigh were set up on a blind date by mutual friends during a fraternity event at the University of South Carolina and have been inseparable ever since. Six years later on Haleigh’s birthday, she was expecting to go to dinner when the couple’s bike taxi made a turn toward the Battery; Jack proposed under a crepe myrtle tree there and afterward surprised Haleigh with a celebration among family and friends at The Dewberry. Their wedding and reception were held in Sorrento, Italy, at a private villa atop a cliff overlooking the Gulf of Naples.
Photograph by Francesco Quaglia