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<strong>OKO</strong>BOJI WEDDINGS<br />
TEXT BY KATE HARLOW<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHELSI HECTOR,<br />
C STARR PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
love<br />
in the air<br />
DECLEENE AND GOEHRING PLAN<br />
DESTINATION <strong>OKO</strong>BOJI WEDDING<br />
When Seth DeCleene proposed to<br />
Allison Goehring she felt like she<br />
was flying.<br />
And that’s because she was.<br />
His proposal took place at about 10,000<br />
feet above the ground when the two were<br />
on a romantic evening helicopter ride above<br />
Scottsdale, Arizona, on Labor Day weekend in<br />
2<strong>02</strong>2.<br />
As they were gazing at the sunset over the<br />
mountains, Seth asked her over the microphone<br />
in his headset.<br />
It sounds like something you might see in<br />
a movie. But it isn’t just the couple’s proposal<br />
that is a plot worthy of film. So, too is the story<br />
of how they met.<br />
Allison and Seth grew up hundreds of miles<br />
apart and when they went to college they<br />
added even more miles between them.<br />
Allison grew up in Okoboji and graduated<br />
from Okoboji High School in 2<strong>01</strong>8. She then<br />
moved further north to attend the College of<br />
St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN, for her undergraduate<br />
studies. Seth is from Kokomo, Indiana,<br />
and upon high school graduation, he<br />
moved south to attend college at Ave Maria<br />
University.<br />
Despite the roughly 1,800-mile distance,<br />
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