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Before they were ever engaged, Chelsea Main and Jesse McNew committed themselves to the idea of a “Big Lebowski” wedding.

It helped that neither of them were much in the way of religious. Also, they had watched the Coen brothers cult classic on the night of their first date, after an evening of drinks in downtown Lincoln and a failed attempt at spotting Lady Gaga.

Chelsea revealed she’d never seen “The Big Lebowski,” and Jesse, privy to this new information, called for an immediate viewing. He was a big “Lebowski” fan, quite possibly the biggest “Lebowski” fan in all of Nebraska, and he would not let stand another moment in which Chelsea went without.

So they watched. And as early as that night, Chelsea felt that wonderful feeling of knowing the man she’d someday wed.

Which is not to say she would have predicted a Lebowski-themed wedding with costumes, characters and coffee cans as table decor.

“I didn’t really get it,” she’d say many months later, on the eve of their big day, about that first viewing.

The story was ludicrous.

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