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Oh Happy Day Susan Marquez 26 • Jan/Feb 2017
When Adam Panetta took his girlfriend out on their boat one sunny summer day, she didn’t suspect a thing. “It was a normal day,” Kristen Panetta recalls. “We went out about three or four in the afternoon, and after about an hour, he took me to a secluded area at the Reservoir and told me to go the front of the boat. Then he asked if he could blindfold me.” Kristen didn’t think anything of it because Adam was such a kidder by nature. “I just thought if he threw me off the boat, I’d be really mad!” While she was blindfolded, Adam quickly rolled out a red “carpet” made of paper, sprinkled it with rose petals, put on a button-down shirt and put a sign around their rescue dog’s neck. “He told me to take off the blindfold, and there was Stella, our dog, with a sign that said, ‘Will you marry my daddy?’ It was perfect.” When they returned to the dock, their families were there to greet them. “We had a party right there at our condo’s clubhouse,” says Kristen. “It was so much fun, and so special.” That was on July 12, 2015. The wedding planning began right away. Kristen and Adam met in high school, but they weren’t high school sweethearts. “I was in the ninth grade at Madison Central, and he was in the tenth. We met over the Christmas break when we were both hanging out at the same friend’s house.” They did go to his junior prom together, but Kristen said he made her nervous, so she wouldn’t date him. “Yet, we would talk and talk all the time. We were just great friends.” Adam went to Ole Miss, and a year later, Kristen went to Mississippi State. Her senior year, he moved to Chicago to work. “We talked on the phone a good bit, and one night we made a bet on who would win American Idol. If he lost, he’d have to come see me. If I lost, I had to travel to Chicago to see him.” Adam’s contestant won, and Kristen announced to her sorority sisters that she was going to see Adam in Chicago. “They were shocked. They really didn’t know anything about him, and they knew I wasn’t the spontaneous type.” Once she went to see Adam in Chicago that summer, Kristen said they have been inseparable ever since. Kristen has always enjoyed doing side projects on her own, and liked the idea of being her own boss. “Adam encouraged me to find something I wanted to do and to write a business plan,” she said. “I worked with Kendall Poole, a local wedding planner, Hometown madison • 27
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