by Charity Curley

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KAREN PLITT AND GEOFF STEAD
AUGUST 29, 1999
NEW YORK, NY

How does a couple plan a wedding in thirty days? In the case of Karen and Geoff's whirlwind engagement, they maximize every moment! From the second this long-distance couple decided to marry, they had just four weeks to organize their wedding. "But with a lot of ingenuity, and help from family and friends, we were able to create exactly what we wanted," says the bride.

What's the rush?
It all started with a courtship that began in New York when Karen met Geoff, an Australian journalist on assignment, eight months earlier. When they decided to wed, it meant changing everything from jobs to countries of residence. After much discussion, Geoff prepared to move from Australia to America. But when he was offered his dream job -- the opportunity to cover the 2000 Summer Olympics for a Sydney newspaper -- they decided that Karen would relocate instead. She was now in a race to plan their wedding and pack up her New York life before Geoff started his new job, four weeks later. But she was up to the challenge. "I would run around researching our ideas, then we'd chat about it late into the night over the phone," remembers the bride. "We had to because, with the time difference, Geoff was a day ahead of me!"

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