Weddings: Heidi Skillman & Jack Barrish

On a warm November Sunday in 2009, some friends decided the weather was just right for softball. At that game, played on the field of their former high school, Heidi first noticed Jack, and Jack first noticed Heidi.

She was Hatboro-Horsham Class of 2003, he was Class of 2004. Though their social circles overlapped a little, they never really spoke back then. They didn't speak on the ball field, either.

A week or two later, Jack and friends walked into the Brick House Tavern. "There was that perky girl, and we knew who she was, so we decided to go talk to her." By the end of the night, Heidi and Jack both were a bit smitten.

Two more weeks passed, and the weather was so not suitable for softball. "There's a blizzard, and I was hanging out at my friend Maggie's house," Heidi said. "My girlfriend Elena is also there, and she and Jack's friend Josh are friends. So I talked to Elena and Elena called Josh."

Seven friends laughed, ate, and played Catch Phrase. Heidi left the room long enough for Maggie to tell Jack that Heidi liked him.

After Heidi returned from a New Year's trip to Key West, Jack asked her to the movies. Neither liked Youth in Revolt, but they liked having dinner together.

Jack, who has a degree in community health education from East Stroudsburg University, worked at the Hunterdon County, N.J., Health Department, running H1N1 virus clinics. Heidi, who has a criminal justice degree from Pennsylvania State University, was an assistant at a law firm.

After their date, Jack dropped Heidi off at Maggie's house.

"I kissed her at the door," he said. "We've been together from there on out," she added.

Together, and almost immediately, inseparable.

"She has this laugh that's very captivating," Jack said. "The more we hung out, the more we would have a good time together, and she was always laughing. Also, she can't do enough for other people. She makes sure everyone else is happy. It was pretty easy for me to fall for her."

Likewise, Heidi said. "Jack is very kind, very compassionate, and a true gentleman. He is always making sure I'm taken care of."

The couple, both from Horsham and both now 30, made their exclusivity official in February.

About a month later, Jack was a passenger in a serious car accident.

His sister called Heidi, who drove immediately to the hospital.

Jack had suffered a traumatic brain injury. Doctors performed surgery to lessen the pressure on his brain and inserted a small metal plate.

"The first time I told Jack that I loved him was in his hospital room after surgery," Heidi said. "He said it back - mouthed it - and squeezed my hand."

Jack has completed years of outpatient cognitive, speech, and physical therapy. He didn't have to relearn walking or talking, he said. But "when you have a brain injury, you have to learn the new you."

Especially at first, that was really hard. Jack, always active, was weak and tired all the time. He could not multitask at all. "If I was talking to Heidi, the TV had to be off."

When he was too tired or too overwhelmed to speak, "Heidi was my voice," he said. On his first non-doctor's office outing - a trip to the store - Jack took a seat on a mobility scooter. He has no obvious outward signs of disability, and an annoyed employee told him scooters were for disabled people only. Heidi took one look at Jack's face and did the explaining for him.

Jack learned early on that many relationships don't survive the changes that come with brain injury. "I'm trying to learn the new me, when Heidi is also trying to learn the new me. But it just made us stronger," he said. "It just shows how special Heidi really is."

Jack has regained much strength and stamina. No longer as spontaneous as he was, he can accomplish most things with planning. As part of rehab, Jack volunteered at Moss Rehab and the Horsham Library. More recently, he worked part-time for a pharmaceutical company, but the company folded. Jack seeks another part-time job and hopes to eventually resume full-time work in public health.

Heidi, now a project coordinator for Newtown medical technology company CenTrak, was working in Doylestown in May 2015. She and Jack had after-work dinner plans at their beloved Spice Thai. Jack stopped by ahead of time to talk to the staff.

Their check came with mints on top of it. Jack pushed them to the floor so he'd have an excuse to pick them up.

When Jack knelt, the server with his cellphone hit record. "Heidi was 100 percent shocked, and when her jaw went wide open, all of my words went away," Jack said. He managed to ask, "Will you be my wife?"

Heidi said yes, and another server brought the flowers and champagne.

The couple, who live in Holland, wed in a traditional Catholic ceremony at St. Bede the Venerable.

At their reception for 200, held at the Northampton Valley Country Club, "we wanted to make sure everyone else was happy and had a good time, and I think we succeeded," Jack said.

They hired a DJ they heard'd as guests at another wedding, Heidi said. "He was amazing, and we knew the dance floor would never be empty."

As Heidi walked down the aisle closer to Jack, she saw his eyes welling up. "I'd never seen Jack cry," she said. "I've cried for him, but with all he's been through, I never once saw him with a tear in his eye. So that really got me."

That's when she knew he was just as excited and nervous as she was. "What was about to happen meant so much. We were about to receive this sacrament from our priest, to profess our love, and make a commitment before God and our friends and family."

Emotional at that moment, Jack is generally a bit of a jokester. They had an April Fool's wedding only because that's when venues and vendors aligned, but Jack went with it. "We got announced at the reception for our first dance, and for 20 seconds it was Salt-N-Pepa's "Let's Talk About Sex." Nobody knew what the heck we were doing!" Then the music and mood changed with Sara Bareilles' "I Choose You."

"It was a moment that we shared with each other, but we were also able to share it with everyone else," Jack said.

A bargain: The bride got her dress at a sample sale for about a third of the price on the tag. Elena's mom did the alterations as a gift.

The splurge: At the last minute, they hired a videographer.

The honeymoon: Six days in the Dominican Republic.