Hitched Since when does the word "contingency" find its way into a marriage proposal?A prenuptial agreement or a business deal, maybe. But a down-on-one-knee proposal? But then, who in their right mind--outsi ...   More

Hitched On the morning Multnomah County joined the national movement to allow same-sex marriages, two "official" weddings took place in a downtown hotel suite filled with flowers, friends, gay activists and p ...   More

Hitched Normally, the Hitched column is reserved for the stories of newlyweds, lovebirds who've only known married life for six months or less. Most couples we profile still have fresh memories of that first ...   More

Hitched You don't have to go to a karaoke bar and hear someone sing "Summer Lovin'" to realize that there's something exciting about romance when the sun is out. And yet, as much as Grease inspires fantasies ...   More

Hitched For a couple that's been together more than a decade, Kregg Arntson and Ted Fettig are beaming like teenagers in love.As they sit in their Southwest Portland home, which after months of demolition and ...   More

Hitched Bill Lohrie hasn't had time to play the organ lately. The instrument takes up a corner of the small but tidy living room of his small but tidy apartment at the Beaverton Lodge, the retirement communit ...   More

Hitched From the very start, there were clues that said Kristie Clark should never have gone on a date with Joe Oligschlaeger.First, she had to work with him. As a damage assessor in an auto-body shop, she'd ...   More

Hitched Before Heather and Adam Woodruff were married this Christmas in Las Vegas, Heather spent 17 years finding--and then losing--Adam. Heather's mission to keep in touch with her former boyfriend was, well ...   More

Hitched Buying a house and falling in love make for great milestones. Cathy Wright and Dave Hollandsworth checked both off their lists in 2003--and added a few more.Consider this: They were total strangers un ...   More

Hitched On a hot summer weekend in Las Vegas back in 2002, Heather Harris and Ezequiel Martinez almost pulled a Britney Spears.This club-hopping couple came very close to eloping (as Ms. Spears reportedly did ...   More