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California couple brought together by soccer say 'I do' in this woodsy Real Wedding

Tim knew Julianne was the one from the very beginning...and he eventually found a way for her to see it too.

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Tim Han knew that Julianne Yuh could be "the one" before he even met her.

Though the two had attended the same, very large high school in Los Angeles, they didn't officially meet until their mutual friend Lorisa's college graduation ceremony in San Diego — which Tim attended as part of a plan to win Julianne's heart.

"I was just browsing my Lorisa's Facebook and I ran into Julianne's picture there,” Tim confessed to TODAY.com. "And I was like, 'Wow, she's really pretty. I have to meet this girl.'”

Tim knew he needed to act fast. “So I drove 5 hours to San Diego, to the graduation,” he recalls. “I guess I came off kinda aggressive."

Tim's initial interest didn't impress Julianne.

“He'd texted Lorisa with something along the lines of 'Your friend is cute,'" she remembers. "I'm thinking, 'Who does this guy think he is?'"

Though he know he was coming on strong, he says he didn't feel he had a choice.

"I have one chance with this girl," he remembers thinking. "The only connection I have is this graduation. It's possible we'd never talk again. After hearing about the type of person she is, I really wanted to have my chance with her."

Tim realized that if he was going to get the girl, he needed to make the first move. So he asked Julianne out for a fun date to watch a soccer game.

"And it was a great game," she says, to which Tim chimed in: "I think she finally started liking me!"

Indeed, Julianne found him almost immediately fascinating.

"He grew up in Paraguay, but was born in the States and didn't come back in junior high," she says. "I found him really interesting...He's a mature person who considers things not a lot of people our age consider: the future, his family.”

Within weeks, Tim could see himself settling down with Julianne.

“I said to my best man, 'She could be my wife,'" he remembers.

Tim proposed two and a half years later on a snowboarding trip to Yosemite, much to Julianne's great surprise. While the two had talked about getting married and had even gone so far as to look at rings together, both had thought it best to wait until Tim was done with law school at UCLA.

And then, Tim changed his mind. “May as well get engaged,” he concluded, “even if it's going to be a long engagement.”

“It was funny because we were actually on our way to go snowshoeing,” Julianne says, of the proposal. “I didn't really see the appeal of it, but he just really wanted to go snowshoeing. Of course, that's where he thought he might propose...It was a winter wonderland.”

Tim stopped the car and they went for a long walk through a snowy meadow, over a bridge, and stopped beside a waterfall. The two were both speechless at how beautiful it was.

“It was freezing cold and I couldn't feel my fingers,” she says, “but it was so enchanting."

Suddenly, Tim couldn't stop smiling — and then he dropped to one knee. "I started crying, but no tears came out because it was so cold the air had dried them," Julianne remembers.

The moment was perfect and unrehearsed, just as Tim had hoped it would be — he'd been carrying the ring throughout the trip “because I wanted to ask spontaneously.”

The couple capped off the night with a romantic dinner at Yosemite Lodge, warmed by a roaring fire place. Again, it was perfect.

They gave themselves a year and three months to plan their spring wedding at Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, California.

“We waited until was my last semester of law school,” Tim explains, “because we didn't have a wedding planner and I wanted to have more free time to help out.”

When it came to choosing a venue, they sought out a location that reflected their easy, elegant sensibilities. “There are so many beautiful places, but we wanted to feel at home in that place,” Julianne says.

Simple elegance was the goal, and the rose-toned color palette and soft, airy linens lent a subtle contrast to the otherwise rustic setting.

In every detail, from the ceiling draping to their tiered strawberry and cream cake topped with real flowers, Julianne sought an organic feel.

“It felt natural, like you could have picked the flowers from outdoors, not too put together.”

As beautiful as everything was, for Tim, nothing beat seeing his bride in white, walking down the aisle.

“She looked stunning," he says. "From afar, the dress looked elegant and not so ornate, but when you got close you could see there were feathers. It was really representative of her, this contrast and the small intricate details.”

The couple wanted everything about their wedding to feel small by design.

“We're Korean-Americans and Korean-American weddings tend be huge,” the bride adds, “but we found it important to keep things small. We knew everyone. And we got to talk to every table. ”

Julianne's favorite memories of the day are the quiet moments she spent with Tim, from the sweetheart table they shared, to the time they were able to sneak away from the crowd to talk and soak in the fact that they'd just tied the knot.

"Most of my memories of that day are of me and Tim, chatting away and joking," Julianne says. “That was one of the moments I cherish most."

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