By Maggie More
Arlington residents Katie Lettie and Vincent Bauer have the kind of love story you read about in books. That’s part of why the Arlington Public Library hosted their wedding on Saturday.
Lettie and Bauer were the winners of a contest the library held earlier this year, taking submissions from couples in the DMV and gifting a free wedding hosted at the Arlington Central Library to one lucky couple.
And it makes sense: After more than a decade together, sometimes on opposite coasts, sometimes an ocean apart, according to the library system, there’s no doubt that they’re dedicated to each other.
The couple met in college in Chicago. They would chat between classes back in 2012, getting to know each other, then getting lunch together, then seeing movies. That eventually led to romance, the couple said.
But after graduation, they moved to opposite coasts: Lettie got a job in Boston, while Bauer went to school in California to get his PhD.
“We tried to visit each