That guy was Niraj, and he was out celebrating a friend's birthday, too. I went to get a drink at the bar and started chatting with a really cute guy. “After watching the race (and losing the hat competition), we continued to celebrate at a local karaoke bar. “It was my friend’s birthday party, and my friends and I had celebrated by going to a Kentucky Derby party and entering into a fun hat competition,” Alyssa says. Louis City Water Division) met at Double D karaoke bar. A metallic mix of silver and gold accents punctuated the space, and huge letter balloons behind the DJ booth spelled out “H-A-A-S,” the couple’s new shared last name.Ĭeremony venue: Basilica of St.Alyssa Brussee (29 and a school social worker for Catholic Family Services) and Niraj Patel (30 and an electrical engineer for St. “I wanted something intimate and romantic,” Janeé says, “so my flowers were all white and ivory, and each table had floating-candle centerpieces.” Her bridesmaids wore black, in contrast to white bouquets, which created a classic, two-tone look. Louis and a reception at Lumen, a venue they chose for its large windows, multiple levels, and open-floor plan. He told me he wouldn’t be able to come back for New Year’s Eve, so this was going to be our own New Year’s dinner.” She fell for that clever decoy-up until the moment when Tommy paused during their post-dinner slow dance and dropped to one knee.Ĭeremony & Reception: Janeé and Tommy got married on with a ceremony at the Basilica of St. “At the time,” she says, “Tommy was living in Indianapolis. The table was set with Tommy’s mother’s china, plus several bottles of champagne and takeout from Janeé's favorite restaurant. “The weather that day was awful,” Janeé says, “but he asked if I’d go in with him and say ‘Hi.’” When they arrived, however, they were greeted by a room covered in rose petals and dimly lit with candles leading to the dining room table. On the way to the restaurant, Tommy told Janeé he needed to stop at his sister’s place in Clayton to drop off a Christmas gift she’d left at their parents’ house. Janeé's sister, a makeup artist who lives in New York City, was in town for the holidays and quickly volunteered to doll her up for her date. Louis with their families for the holidays, “but I remember,” Janee says, “Tommy didn’t ask me what I wanted for Christmas, so I was suspicious.” The day after Christmas, he asked her if she’d like to go to dinner. Proposal: Janeé and Tommy dated long distance for most of college (with the exception of one year they spent together at Mizzou). When that time came, though, he asked Janeé to make things official despite their looming separation, neither could imagine breaking things off. They started dating not long after (kicking things off with a night at the movies), but Janeé figured it would just be a summer fling, since Tommy was leaving for college on a baseball scholarship in the fall. “We were hanging out at a party like we normally did, and afterward, he texted to make sure I got home okay. But Tommy was so quiet and reserved, Janeé never suspected he’d be interested in her romantically-until a couple weeks after graduation when “he got a boost of confidence,” Janeé says. By senior year, they belonged to the same social circle. The two attended different schools, but they’d been introduced by a mutual friend. Courtship: When Janeé Mitchell first heard that Tommy Haas had a crush on her in their senior year of high school, she brushed it off as a made-up rumor.
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