COV E R S TO R Y
SYDEL + DAMION LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA P H O TOG R A P H E D B Y T h e G re a t R o m a n c e P h o t o
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t wasn’t love at f irst sight when Sydel and Damion met… or at least for Sydel it wasn’t. And that’s not because she
wasn't attracted to Damion, but simply because she didn’t really notice him at a March Madness basketball game where her brother Seth was playing. Plus, she was in a relationship at the time. Damion caught f irst glance at Sydel while he was walking up the stairs. She was sitting in the stands, and they made eye contact brief ly. “I couldn’t forget that face,” Damion recalls the moment he saw Sydel for the f irst time. After some DMs which led to a series of dates, the couple has been inseparable. In our interview with Sydel, we learn details about their wedding planning journey, and love story.
OCCUPATIONS: (Sydel) Lifestyle Inf luencer, (Damion) Professional Basketball Player WEDDING DATE: September 1, 2018 WEDDING LOCATION: Charlotte, NC
HOW DID YOU MEET? "Basketball world - long story short, then he slid in my DMs..." THE PROPOSAL... "My one wish for a proposal was to have all my family in the same room when the time came. He planned it on a weekend that both of our families would be in town for different reasons. It was his f irst game back after his ACL injury and it was the same weekend that my sister-in-law's
