Rebekah Gregory and Pete DiMartino were at the finish line of the Boston Marathon when the bombs went off. Now wedding site The Knot is giving them a chance at a perfect wedding.
Rebekah Gregory and Pete DiMartino met through a friend in winter 2012. Rebekah was visiting upstate New York on a business trip and ended up stopping by the restaurant Pete worked at.
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They began talking on Facebook after Rebekah got home to Texas. "And then she lied and told me her Facebook wasn't working and that I needed to text her so she gave me her phone number," Pete told BuzzFeed.
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They were on the phone for hours with each other and splitting time between Texas and New York after that. In the year leading up to the Boston Marathon, they introduced each other to their families.
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On the day of the marathon, they were there with their two families to cheer on Pete's mother. They were at the finish line when the bombs went off.
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