ISN'T IT ROMANTIC? COUPLE TO WED ON `DAY OF ... LOVE'.Byline: Michael Gougis Staff Writer After getting engaged, Lara Vujicic ran her finger down the calendar looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a date in February and saw that Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. fell on a Saturday. Perfect. Quickly, she called Calamigos Ranch ranch, large farm devoted chiefly to raising and breeding cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. The cattle ranch was introduced from Latin America to Texas and the plains of the W United States and Canada. , perched on the crest of the Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. Geography They run for approximately 40 mi (64 km) east-west from the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles to Point Mugu in Ventura County. in Malibu, where two of her sisters had been married. ``I asked if they had anything, they said yes, and we grabbed it,'' said Vujicic, 19, sitting with her husband-to-be Eric Radosavcev, 22, in her parents' Agoura Hills home. The young couple smiled as they recounted how they managed to land the most romantic day of the year for the most romantic day of their lives. Most chapels and other wedding venues, such as the Calabasas Inn in Calabasas and the Odyssey Odyssey (ŏd`ĭsē): see Homer. Odyssey Homer’s long, narrative poem centered on Odysseus. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey] See : Epic Odyssey in Granada Hills, typically have a wedding booked on Valentine's Day, regardless of what day of the week it falls on. ``Whether it's a wedding on Valentine's Day - or a proposal, which we get more frequently - they're extremely excited,'' said Carolyn Pappas, co-owner of the Bistro Garden at Coldwater in Studio City. ``The men are like little boys, the women are like giddy little girls.'' But with Valentine's Day on a Saturday this year, it wasn't just more romantic for Vujicic and Radosavcev, it made it easier to gather the 300-plus guests on the invitation list. Vujicic and her mother, Rita, tripped over each other's sentences in trying to put into words exactly why the confluence confluence /con·flu·ence/ (kon´floo-ins) 1. a running together; a meeting of streams.con´fluent 2. in embryology, the flowing of cells, a component process of gastrulation. of a wedding and Valentine's Day was so special. ``It's the day of, you know ...'' Rita said. ``... the day of ... love,'' her daughter said, laughing. ``For everyone who comes to the wedding,'' Rita chimed back in. ``It's almost like you get to renew your own vows, share the love, the romance of the day and the ceremony.'' ``And it's like a free date on Valentine's Day for everyone!'' Vujicic said. All fabulous reasons for celebrating a wedding on Valentine's Day, said Constance Ahrons, professor emeritus e·mer·i·tus adj. Retired but retaining an honorary title corresponding to that held immediately before retirement: a professor emeritus. n. pl. of sociology at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission and co-founder and board member of the Council on Contemporary Families. ``We tend to hold on to these rituals, and Valentine's Day ... is still a very big deal,'' Ahrons said. ``It's all about romance, and having a wedding on that date allows everyone to share in that.'' There was a lot of happiness in the Vujicic house Wednesday. Even Radosavcev was looking remarkably calm for a guy three days from his wedding and Valentine's Day. One recent survey by a dating company noted that the stress of the holiday alone had driven more than one-third of men to consider ending a relationship rather than go through another Valentine's Day. Radosavcev, on the other hand, was the perfect groom-to-be, graciously gra·cious adj. 1. Characterized by kindness and warm courtesy. 2. Characterized by tact and propriety: responded to the insult with gracious humor. 3. giving Vujicic all the credit for putting together the ceremony. ``She's been doing a good job. There's just a couple things left. Mostly, we'll be going to the airport a lot,'' he said. And when Vujicic apologized for monopolizing the conversation, Radosavcev told her, ``It's OK. You know all the right things to say.'' The 3 p.m. outdoor ceremony - Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, may be one of the few places in the nation a couple would gamble on an outdoor ceremony in February - is the latest milestone in the four-year relationship. ``We met at a church retreat in Pennsylvania,'' she said. ``I really had no interest in him at first. But I knew his sisters, and he came out here to visit a year and a half later, and ... well, I saw him in a whole new light,'' she said, beaming like, well, a bride-to-be. Vujicic is the fourth daughter in the family to be married, and in a way is carrying on a tradition. Radosevcev's brother married one of Vujicic's sisters, and his first cousin married another of Vujicic's sisters. Clearly, they've found a combination that works, and they're sticking with it. After the ceremony, the couple will head for a weeklong week·long adj. Continuing through the week: a weeklong conference. Adj. 1. weeklong - lasting through a week; "her weeklong vacation" seven-day cruise to Mexico, then they're moving into their new house in Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. - their first test as a couple. ``I've never moved, and I've got a lot of stuff,'' Vujicic mused. But that is an issue for another day. For the moment, there's just the wedding, Valentine's Day, and everything those two things bring together. ``Why that day? It's just the romance that surrounds it,'' she said. Michael Gougis, (818) 713-3762 michael.gougis(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) With the Santa Monica Mountains as a backdrop, Eric Radosavcev and Lara Vujicic will exchange wedding vows today. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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