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Same-name couple to wed after Facebook meeting
Assoc. Press ^ | 07/22/2009 | By SARAH LARIMER

Posted on 07/22/2009 12:30:22 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

MIAMI (AP) -- This October, Kelly Hildebrandt will vow to share her life with a man who already shares her name.

This is no joke. Kelly Katrina Hildebrandt, 20, and Kelly Carl Hildebrandt, 24, expect just over 100 guests at a ceremony at the Lighthouse Point Yacht & Racquet Club in South Florida, where they will become husband and wife.

"He is just everything that I've ever looked for," she said in an interview. "There's always been certain qualities that a guy has to have. And he has all the ones I could think of - and more."

Their modern romance was a match made in cyberspace. She was curious and bored one night last year, so she plugged her name into the popular social networking Web site Facebook just to see if anyone shared it.

At the time, Kelly Hildebrandt, of Lubbock, Texas, was the only match.

So she sent him a message.

"She said 'Hi. We had the same name. Thought it was cool,'" Kelly Carl Hildebrandt said. "I thought she was pretty cute."

But there were also concerns.

"I thought, man, we've got to be related or something," he said.

For the next three months the two exchanged e-mails. Before he knew it, occasional phone calls turned into daily chats, sometimes lasting hours. He visited her in Florida after a few months and "fell head over heels."

"I thought it was fun," he said of that first online encounter. "I had no idea that it would lead to this."

Months after Kelly Hildebrandt sent her first e-mail, she found a diamond engagement ring hidden in treasure box on a beach in December.

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1 posted on 07/22/2009 12:30:22 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Cute couple, but obviously, she’s lazy...

not wanting to go through the trouble change her last name and all...


2 posted on 07/22/2009 12:31:53 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Cool

and

I just won a hand of Solitaire - a first in years.

Must be a good day.


3 posted on 07/22/2009 12:32:04 PM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I knew a couple who shared a first name.

He was Jesse. She was Jessie.

She later used her middle name exclusively.

I bet this couple will soon be going by Carl and Katrina.


4 posted on 07/22/2009 12:32:49 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I once knew a couple named Henry and Henrietta.


5 posted on 07/22/2009 12:36:29 PM PDT by Huntress (Who the hell are you to tell me what's in my best interests?)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Cute couple, I'm pulling for these kids...


6 posted on 07/22/2009 12:36:50 PM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: the_devils_advocate_666
I'm pulling for these kids.

Well I don't think either of them is THAT cute....

7 posted on 07/22/2009 12:39:25 PM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Responsibility2nd
Back when I was in elementary school, there was an older girl in the neighborhood named Lane Neely who was dating a boy whose last name was Lane. We joked that if they got married, her name would be Lane Lane. This is better than that.
8 posted on 07/22/2009 12:40:10 PM PDT by Niteranger68 (I do not recognize the laws of a tyrannical government.)
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To: Niteranger68

In college I worked with a girl who had the same last name as mine except mine ended with an “s”. We joked that if we got married she’d just go plural.


9 posted on 07/22/2009 12:43:49 PM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: Niteranger68

When I was young, I knew a guy named xxxx Juday (pronounced Judy) who married a girl named Judy xxxxx. Her name became Judy Juday...

hh


10 posted on 07/22/2009 12:43:55 PM PDT by hoosier hick (Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
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To: Responsibility2nd

WHOA! Slow down...aren’t you supposed to have kids before you get married?


11 posted on 07/22/2009 12:45:35 PM PDT by frogjerk (It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible - George Washington)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Good friends of ours met under similar circumstances. Both worked for the same company, and both were named Kim Kramer. A mutual friend fixed them up and they have been together ever since.


12 posted on 07/22/2009 12:46:01 PM PDT by CharlieOK1 (Jimmy Carter: Now available in black)
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To: Responsibility2nd
But any confusion likely won't carry on past the husband and wife. Kelly Katrina Hildebrandt said there are no plans to pass along the name to future children.

"No," she said. "We're definitely not going to name our kids Kelly."

George Foreman, George Foreman, George Foreman, George Foreman and George Foreman just called.

They said; "Good idea!".

13 posted on 07/22/2009 12:51:21 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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To: CharlieOK1

LOL!


14 posted on 07/22/2009 12:52:01 PM PDT by agere_contra
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

wow.. I’d fall for her as well.. she is extremely cute, nice smile.. she sparkles.. not a bad looking fella.. gonna be good looking kids.


17 posted on 07/22/2009 12:55:31 PM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m sure my daughter still holds it against me that she was never able to get married at an exclusive Yacht club.


18 posted on 07/22/2009 1:01:24 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: edcoil

One thing about this kind of thread, you can play Solitaire and not miss anything.


19 posted on 07/22/2009 1:04:38 PM PDT by fish hawk (Lord, help us to attain knowledge and the wisdom to apply it toward your ultimate will.)
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To: F15Eagle
.... the kid is going to be out on the porch with a banjo.

Let's leave James Carville out of this, shall we?

20 posted on 07/22/2009 1:05:10 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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