A couple calls in the big guns to iron out logistics for their wedding at West Point.

The easiest decision Pamela Downes and Michael Fitzgerald made about their nuptials was the venue.

“I’m a graduate of West Point so I have a great fondness for the academy,” says Michael, a U.S. Army captain.

Both he and his future bride, Pamela, a Woodcliff Lake native, had many treasured memories of West Point. Like Cinderella, Pamela had gone to the ball (more than once, as well as dinners) with her “Prince,” when he was a cadet there and she attended nearby Marist College. (The pair had known each other since age 15 after working together as day-camp lifeguards, but the sparks didn’t start flying seriously until their college years when they bumped into each other at a party closer to home.)

While the decision was easy, the same could not be said for carrying it out. After six months of trying to plan things on her own, Pamela realized it was time for the big guns—and in November, she followed a friend’s recommendation and called on Christine Figliuolo, founder of Waldwick-based Creations by Christine Events, to plan the June 10 ceremony.

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