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"My friend Jen Gotch met a guy in L.A., and, after one week, they decided to get married. Sound insane? Well, they&amp;#x27;ve been happily married for almost four years! Here&amp;#x27;s the story of their whirlwind romance... (And tell me: How long do you think you should know someone before getting married?)****** Here&amp;#x27;s the story of Jen Gotch and her husband&amp;#x27;s whirlwind romance... I live in Los Angeles, and a few years ago, I met a handsome Australian guy while he was visiting a friend here. We fell in love in a week and decided to get married. Yup. One week. We&amp;#x27;re both pretty impulsive people. We almost went right to Vegas to get married, but decided that we&amp;#x27;d want our parents to be there. Andrew had to go back to Australia for a teaching commitment, so we had a long-distance relationship for about a year. Then he moved here on February 14th. (I made him move on Valentine&amp;#x27;s Day--totally cheesy.) We got married in Vegas a couple of months later. Our first night, we stayed at Caesar&amp;#x27;s Palace, because I wanted him to get the full Vegas experience, and the second night at the Stardust. The place was pretty gross, but we didn&amp;#x27;t notice. How could we? We were floating on air. Then we were off on our honeymoon--a two-week road trip to Graceland. That was 3 1/2 years ago. On our third anniversary, we went back to Vegas to renew our vows. We got upgraded to a suite at the Hard Rock, drank Champagne and ate chocolate-covered strawberries. We gambled for hours and didn&amp;#x27;t lose a dime (didn&amp;#x27;t win a dime, either, but we felt very lucky). Then we renewed our vows at the drive-thru wedding chapel!!! Andrew didn&amp;#x27;t want to wake up that morning, so I just put my anniversary card in his hand. It stayed that way for a surprisingly long time. We found this cool &amp;quot;G&amp;quot; (for our last name, Gotch) at a Vegas antique store and thought it was the perfect anniversary gift to us, from us. Thank you, Jen! Isn&amp;#x27;t that a cute story? How long do you think you should date someone before tying the knot? My parents say two years, but my friend Nina met a guy in July and they&amp;#x27;re already engaged. What do you guys think? (P.S. Jen is the genius behind these brides&amp;#x27; poofy headbands! New York readers can meet Jen at her headband trunk show this week at Henri Bendel.) Photos: Jen Gotch and Bob Fabian"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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