Made with love: A Middlebury baker whips up wedding cakes

Middlebury baker Nikki Bowdish has spent the past several years helping make newlyweds’ special day all the more memorable, whipping up cakes, cookies and other confections for weddings around Addison County and beyond.

Weddings: Amber and Dustin: Ships that crossed in the night

Amber Power and Dustin Hunt knew each other in high school, but never talked or hung out — or even, as Amber notes, acknowledged each other.

Weddings: Alexandra and Nelson: A new meaning to ‘gone fishing’

Addison native Alexandra Larrow met Nelson Burgos in 2013 after she had moved down to Massachusetts, where Nelson is from. They went out with a group of mutual friends and hit it off right away, but didn’t start dating until the following spring.

Weddings: Emma and Christopher: Chat online, meet in school

Emma Bryant and Christopher Robinson certainly had a noteworthy meet-cute.

Weddings: Tamara and Austin: All thanks to a seating plan

Tamara Aunchman was a senior at Vergennes Union High School when she met a junior named Austin Brown in an engineering class at the Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center.

Weddings: Allison and William: A Valentine’s Day surprise

Allison Cosey and William DiFrancesco met at work, but that’s not where the romance started.

The Devine wedding: An Addison County love story

“Me and Kylie met at the American Legion Post 14 at Tuesday night bingo with our grandmas when we were four or five,” Cyrus recalled. Kylie Comeau and Cyrus Devine spent most of the years since then together.

Weddings: Elyzabeth & Ryan

To this day, Ryan says that Subway sandwiches aren’t his favorite, but he kept coming back just so he could see Elyzabeth. 

Weddings: Kelsey & Dustin

Kelsey says Dustin LOVES his birthday, a day that’s all about him. “So I never thought he would want to share his special day with me, but boy was I wrong!” Kelsey says. Dustin proposed that day.

Weddings: Lindsay & Dylan

Lindsay Christian and Dylan Bougor of Middlebury said theirs is a 21st Century Love Story — they met online.

Weddings: Moriah & Tyler

Tyler Hebert and Moriah Sullivan had a beautiful wedding this year — in fact they had two! But the backstory to how the two met is emotional.

Weddings: Megan & Bow

Megan Vaughan and Bow Rinder-Godard have been together for a decade. They met during the summer of 2013 while swimming at the Gorge swimming hole in East Middlebury, and they’ve entangled their lives together since then.

Weddings: Mary Beth & Gary

Mary Beth and Gary have known each other for a long time. Gary was friends with Mary Beth’s oldest sister, Katie, when they were in high school.

Weddings: Sarah & Carson

Seems like there is an app for everything. Thank goodness for the dating app called “Coffee Meets Bagel,” that’s how Middlebury native Sarah Snider and Carson Keys met in Atlanta in 2018.

Weddings: Carrie & Sam

Carrie Mills and Sam Miller got married at the Congregational Church of Middlebury on Aug. 19.

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