Nicholas Raymond

This weekend, Nicholas Raymond and Kimberly Stowell received the best wedding gift of all - a wedding.
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Area businesses donated everything from the reception to the rings, and on Saturday, Nick and Kim said "I do" in front of nearly 200 guests on the Bangor Waterfront.
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"To see all this right now, it's overwhelming, to say the least," Raymond said before the wedding.
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Stowell, 23, and Raymond, 24, met on a blind date four years ago while both were students at the University of Maine.
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Today, Nick teaches math at Hampden Academy and is working toward a master's degree at UM.
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Their friends and family agreed that if any couple deserved the wedding of their dreams, it was Nick and Kim.

Surrounded by family, friends, media and donors, Hampden couple Nick Raymond and Kim Stowell react to the announcement of surprise wedding services and gifts while visiting their friend Laura Lynch's home in Hampden late Tuesday afternoon.BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY JOHN CLARKE RUSS
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Not Kimberly Stowell and Nicholas Raymond of Hampden, who were one of four couples in the running last week for "Today Throws a Hometown Wedding."
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If Katie Couric wasn't going to give Stowell and Raymond the wedding of their dreams, their friends Laura Lynch, Darrell Kent, Bernie Littlefield and Michele Gross decided they would.
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But Nick and Kim both were relieved to have the stress, not to mention the bills, alleviated.
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Stowell and Raymond are busy, and like most young couples, they're trying to make ends meet.
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Nick teaches math at Hampden Academy and is a part-time graduate student at the University of Maine.
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Friends say Stowell and Raymond took the news quite graciously, and Kim said, "I still get to marry him."

The community rallied behind the couple and businesses donated everything from the reception to the rings as Nicholas Raymond and Kimberly Stowell exchanged vows Saturday in front of nearly 200 guests on the Bangor waterfront.
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I couldn't ask for a better day," Raymond said.

Stowell, 23, and Raymond, 24, met on a blind date four years ago while both were students at the University of Maine.
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Raymond now teaches math at Hampden Academy and is working toward a master's degree at UMaine.