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LOVE & ROMANCE Nicolette Weeke & Matthew Bigham BRIDAL BLISS DATE: November 4, 2017 VENUE : Old Barn Inn at Inns at St. Albans ABOUT THE COUPLE: She’s an emergency department physician assistant at CEP America. He’s a corporate counsel at LS Power Development. HOW DID YOU MEET?   Matthew: I remember seeing Nicolette’s profile and thinking that if I could just get the chance to meet her in person, then this girl could be the one for me. I realize basing that opinion on a few photographs sounds bizarre, but I distinctly remember thinking that. Of course, after I performed some exhaustive online reconnaissance, I learned that Nicolette and I had both grown up in Southern Illinois and gone to the University of Illinois, and that she had an impressive job as a Like all great romances of the 21st century, we met on Tinder.  WAS IT LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT?   36 GAZELLE STL