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Update: In light of COVID-19, we wanted to check in and let you know your health and safety are our top priority. We’re still figuring things out and will keep you posted about any changes to our wedding. Thank you for your patience!
Update: In light of COVID-19, we wanted to check in and let you know your health and safety are our top priority. We’re still figuring things out and will keep you posted about any changes to our wedding. Thank you for your patience!
June 12, 2021
Istanbul, Turkey
#koparans2021

Jessica & Dinçer

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Dinçer

Koparan

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Jessica

Spann

#koparans2021

June 12, 2021

Istanbul, Turkey

How We Met

Boy chases ball, girl picks up ball and now boy chases girl

We first saw each other at a local church in Istanbul, Turkey. Dinçer had been attending this church since he was a little boy, and I was just checking it out. But the real meeting was shortly after at a youth group retreat (you are still considered youth if you are single in your thirties - lucky for me!) in a little Polish Village called Polenezkoy, outside of Istanbul proper. Everyone was outside playing sports and enjoying the large property where we were staying when a certain boy was chasing a soccer ball and a certain girl picked up and handed that ball back to that boy! Dinçer says it was love at first sight, while I stayed skeptical and guarded. Our friendship grew over the next 3 years and developed into an undeniable bond. That friendship turned into a 2 year relationship, and almost to the day of that 2 year dating anniversary, Dinçer got down on one knee in front of 20 of our close friends at a cafe in Istanbul and proposed! We are so excited to start our lives together and are so happy to share and celebrate it with you!

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