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Height aside, they see eye to eye
By M.C. FINOTTI, Special to the Times-Union
Jul 20, 2008
Sarah Balme and Adam Lane like to look at each other eye-to-eye.
But that's not always easy to do. The top of 5-foot-3 Sarah's head hits somewhere in the middle of 6-foot-7 Adam's chest.
The first time the two laid eyes on each other, at a Plaid Pants Party during The Players Championship week last year, they didn't speak.
But Adam, senior game day producer for the Jacksonville Jaguars, said he fell in love at first sight.
Sarah, assistant to Jacksonville City Councilman Daniel Davis, said she liked Adam right away, too, and wanted to talk with the "super tall" guy who was the friend of a friend.
But she had to wait for her next chance, when she attended a Young Professionals event at the stadium. There, Sarah said, her stomach "flipped with excitement" because the "super tall" guy she'd seen a month before was working the event.
The pair, both 28, went out with friends after the event and talked all night.
He called the next day, and they started dating. About three weeks later, Adam told himself, "I'm going to marry this girl."
"The first date we went on there was, like, zero guardedness," Adam said. "It was like we were friends before we started dating."
Last November, the couple went to New York City to visit a friend of Sarah's from Mandarin High School, Lindsey Wiegmann.
After a morning of sightseeing and ice skating, Lindsey took the pair to Rockefeller Center.
In front of the giant Christmas tree, Adam announced that he had to tie his shoe, and got down on one knee to do it.
"That pretty much put us on eye level," Adam said.
But instead of tying his shoe, Adam asked Sarah to marry him.
Lindsey snapped a photograph. Bystanders clapped and cried.
"I was just thankful that I got to witness that," Lindsey said. "It's usually such a private moment."
The couple said "I do" at the Casa Marina Hotel in Jacksonville Beach on June 13. Davis, a close friend and spiritual mentor to the couple, became a notary just so he could marry them.
And when it was time to take wedding pictures, the couple tried a variety of poses.
Their favorite? Sarah sitting on Adam's bended knee, a pose that pretty much puts them at eye level for eternity.
Each Sunday, the Times-Union profiles a recently married First Coast couple in I Do, I Do. If you or someone you know has an interesting love story that led to the altar, e-mail features@ jacksonville.com and include a wedding picture.
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