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26 real weddings PLANNING GUIDE 2016 I If It weren't for the machinations of two 12-year-old girls, Alberta couple Danielle Rutherford and Kurtis Hicks might never have gotten together. Laughs Danielle, "Our little sisters were best friends and they thought if we got married, they'd be related!" e prepubescent plotters arranged an intro- duction between the two young professionals back in 2006, which, several years of dating later, led to a romantic proposal atop South Africa's famed Table Mountain one April afternoon. Fourteen months later, on June 27, 2015, Danielle and Kurtis made their union official (and their respective sisters very happy) in a joyful celebration at Vancouver Island's Westin Bear Mountain Golf Resort & Spa. "We knew we wanted a destination wedding without it being too far for our guests to travel," says Danielle. "Almost all of our guests stayed at the resort, and it was so much fun for everyone to be together for the weekend. We wanted our friends and family to have a mini getaway with us, and having been to Bear Mountain before, it seemed like the perfect place." e weather was perfect too, with blue skies ensuring surprise showers wouldn't mar the couple's outdoor ceremony, an elegant yet down- to-earth affair expertly created by Details Special Event Planning & Décor. As the summer sun shone and a harpist played