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"  It&amp;#039;s the quintessential New York story: Boy sees girl in revolving door and asks the doorman for her number. That&amp;#039;s what happened when former restaurant owner Peter Zaitzeff first saw attorney Annie Dean in their Lower East Side high-rise. &amp;quot;Peter tells this story, and it&amp;#039;s, &amp;#039;I saw you, and you were beautiful,&amp;#039; while my friends were like, &amp;#039;Annie, hurry up. You&amp;#039;re holding up this guy in the back,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; says Annie, who sheepishly admits that she was checking her phone as she went through the fateful door. &amp;quot;We referred to him as &amp;#039;the babe from the lobby.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Peter and Annie went to local restaurant Spitzer&amp;#039;s Corner for their first date, but Annie could stay only 30 minutes before she had to leave for a concert. &amp;quot;He asked me all these funny interview-type questions,&amp;quot; she recalls, and at the concert she told a friend that he had &amp;quot;no chance.&amp;quot; Peter gleaned that Annie loved music, so he asked some club bouncers he knew if any notable bands were coming to town, and learned of a secret show by Spoon \u2014 which happened to be Annie&amp;#039;s favorite group. He followed that with a Jay-Z concert, a Yankees game, meals at Mexican cantina Barrio Chino \u2014 and before they knew it, a year had passed. They celebrated the anniversary at the Mayflower Inn, in Washington, Connecticut, which was fitting for Annie, who traces her lineage to Mayflower passengers. In September, Annie got a serendipitous call from her childhood best friend, Ariel Rich: &amp;quot;I found the dress you&amp;#039;re getting married in, so we should probably buy it now.&amp;quot; Despite the fact that she had no engagement ring, Annie ordered the dress over the phone and had Ariel pick it up and take it to her house in Connecticut to avoid questions from Peter. Annie took a day trip to try on the vintage champagne sleeveless Oscar de la Renta dress, which was covered in sequins. It was a perfect fit. Coincidentally, elsewhere in Connecticut that day, Peter was at her parents&amp;#039; home, asking permission to propose.  &amp;quot;Throughout our relationship, there has been a bunch of stuff that&amp;#039;s just fallen into place,&amp;quot; Peter says. &amp;quot;I picked the Conservatory Garden, in Central Park, to propose in&amp;quot; \u2014 not knowing that Annie and her father frequented it \u2014 &amp;quot;and it just made sense that it&amp;#039;s one of her favorite places in New York City.&amp;quot; Annie saw the proposal coming \u2014 &amp;quot;He woke up every morning at 3 a.m. that week!&amp;quot; \u2014 and happily said yes. The wedding was planned in a few months. The venue would be the architecturally stunning Museum of the City of New York \u2014 across the street from the Conservatory Garden. The classic, early-&amp;#039;60s style of the event was complemented by the museum&amp;#039;s exhibit of Cecil Beaton photographs, an ideal backdrop for guest portraits. (Planning the wedding together led the couple to create the Elements of Style, an etiquette and entertaining blog, at anniedean.com.) Brooklyn florist Emily Thompson, who had just decorated the White House for Christmas, did the arrangements. On the day of the wedding, one of the few snowfalls of the winter descended on New York. &amp;quot;I pulled up the shade, and it was like waking up on Christmas morning,&amp;quot; Annie recalls. &amp;quot;It was so peaceful&amp;quot; \u2014 until the bridesmaids, who chose their own jewel-toned dresses, arrived, and preparations got underway. Meanwhile, Peter and his friends decamped to the Bowery Hotel to get dressed. The bride and groom met at Grand Central Terminal for photos before heading to the museum. A string quartet played mash-ups of classical pieces and contemporary hits for the ceremony. Guests enjoyed art exhibits during cocktail hour, and dinner, catered by the buzzy Fat Radish, was served family-style. After the meal, Peter presented a certificate of &amp;quot;Love at First Sight&amp;quot; to Annie \u2014 signed by their doorman. The party continued until dawn, when the newlyweds capped off the night with the most New York of traditions: reading the New York Times wedding announcements \u2014 which this time included their own. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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