Both our bride and groom grew up along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, but in cities over 700 miles apart—Anna in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and Jeff on Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey. When...
Ali and KJ met while out one weekend at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, quickly realizing that they had grown up just minutes apart from each other on the Jersey Shore. KJ, a City of Charleston firefighter, proposed to Ali, an accountant, as the two walked to their boat at Bristol Marina one Sunday morning. The couple wed at Sacred Heart Church downtown before holding a reception at Lowndes Grove Plantation on the Ashley River.
Photograph by Andrew Cebulka