obody was surprised when Deborah Rennie and Vincent Walker noticed each other one Halloween - she was costumed as a genie; he was wearing a trench coat, and we're not talking Columbo. Later when Deborah and Vincent became buddies, it seemed natural to fill out business-school applications together. When Harvard accepted them both, joining the same study group was just another phase in their friendship. But it could only have been fate when, several years later, Deborah and Vincent ended up working together at the same Manhattan consulting firm. After that, marriage was inevitable.

    For their May wedding, Deborah and Vincent, both 31 took over Wheatleigh, a stately Italianesque estate in Lenox, Massachusetts. Deborah was a truly unflappable bride. As the day heated up, she moved the ceremony outside; when she lost her seating chart, she asked guests to sit where they'd like. The feast of salmon, sorbet, and Caribbean rum cake was followed by a trip to Italy. "Our lives are so full of chance encounters. We even ran into friends on our honeymoon," reports Deborah.