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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I good friend of mine named Teresa, goes by Terry, married a guy named Gary. Their last name is Terry. So, my friend is now Terry Terry married to Gary Terry. I’m not joking either.
Awesome reply. ROTFLMAO
What about Marcy Darcy from Married with Children?
He should change his middle name to Katrina.
Disgusting, appalling, horrendous, assinine....oh wait, same NAME marriage...nevermind
There is a friend of my parents who was given the option of choosing his name when he was 5 years old. He chose the name “Laura”. He grew up to marry a lady named “Billie”.
I figured it would come to this once same sex marriage was allowed.
Same name...
I'm pretty sure I have all the qualities anyone could think of - and more."
This makes sense to me. Have you ever stood in line at a driver’s license office?
I forgot about her. Funny.
And they can save on stationery, too!
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