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h e Wedding Issue
The pair had been decorating their first joint
Christmas tree in November 2015 with ornaments
given to them by both families. Says Koerber: “I
got distracted with something, and he pointed
and said, ‘What’s this one here?’
“I turned around and said ‘Oh, I don’t know.’
I looked at it, and it said, ‘You for the rest of my
life,’ and it had a ring tied to it. And then he got
down on one knee, and I pretty much blacked out
at that point. I don’t remember anything else!”
“The second proposal went a lot better,” McClure
says. “I wanted to do something understated but
meaningful, so I attached the ring to a special
ornament as we were putting up our first full
Christmas tree together. Unfortunately, Jacquelyn
wasn’t wearing her glasses, so it took a bit of
prompting to get her to notice it. When she finally
spotted it, I dropped to one knee and proposed.
From there we went to a surprise dinner with
our parents at our favorite restaurant, Wiltshire
on Market (in Louisville).”
found out that my dad was sick when we started
dating, so we went through the whole process of
him fighting cancer (and) my parents moving to
New York City to get the best treatment. I took
over their business and ran it. There were so
many changes. My father passed away in February
2015. To have someone be by your side during the
darkest points of my life – relationships are easy
when things are going great. He had been through
my side during the hardest point, and never left
my side. We just had such a strong connection. “Since I’m a local business. That was important
to me,” she says. “Any time I didn’t, like my
photographer, it was just because I waited too
long!”
“And I knew he was the one from the beginning.
He comes from a wonderful family and I saw
how he treats his mom. He comes from a similar
background – his parents are both still married
and they have a good marriage. My parents were
so close and had a great marriage. There were
no questions.” “My dad grew up right down the road, and
also St. John’s Church is right down the road,
and that’s where he’s buried,” Koerber says. “You
could actually see the church where he’s buried
from the location of the wedding. And Chrissy’s
stepfather, Jerry Finn, he married us. He’s the
same person who spoke at my father’s funeral.
It was very much a family event.”
And out of the darkness came light.
Saying “yes” was an easy decision for Koerber. Wedding planning for their 300 guests took
about 11 months. McClure and Koerber tied the
knot on Oct. 8, 2016.
“We were the best of friends,” she says. “We had
gone through so much with each other. We’d just As someone in the wedding industry, Koerber
tried to use as many local businesses as possible.
Rather than a more traditional wedding venue,
the couple chose to get married at the childhood
farm of Koerber’s best friend, Chrissy Costello,
in Starlight.
She designing the perfect event with the help
of Nance’s Events, helmed by Brian Nance, who
co-own’s Nance’s Florist with his father.
Koerber reserved a spot in the front row for her
late father during the ceremony and reception,
and she even had their invitations addressed
from both of her parents, who were married for
39 years when her father passed. “The lady who
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