Will you marry me at the airport?

— -- It's June and wedding season is officially underway. Look around and you'll start noticing folks getting hitched in churches, formal gardens, backyards, courthouses and hotel function rooms.

And once in a while, in airports.

Yes, airports. For many travelers, an airport may be the least romantic spot on earth. But airports have played an important role in plenty of love stories. Many couples first meet while working at an airport. Others meet while flying on an airplane or while hanging around at an airport. Some folks then get engaged or married at the airport because that's where they fell in love. Others just find the airport a convenient jumping off point for the rest of their – married – lives.

Star attraction

Rigo and Rhonda Sauceda began dating during the construction of the new terminal at Idaho's Boise Airport. Both were part of the team responsible for installing the security and information technology systems, so Rhonda didn't give it a second thought one day when Rigo said he needed to stop by the airport. "I thought we were just picking up something Rigo left at work." Instead, Rigo asked Rhonda to wait for him in the center of the airport, on the star in the middle of the medallion that forms a map on the floor. "He got down on one knee and asked me if I would marry him." (She said yes.) They considered exchanging vows at the airport, "because the Boise Airport is what brought us together," but decided to "make things a little more private" and ended up holding their wedding at a local hotel instead.

Larissa ter Veer, another Boise Airport employee, didn't get engaged at the airport, but she and her fiancé Dirk, a pilot and National Guard C-130 flight engineer, did have their wedding just 15 miles down the road, at Nampa Municipal Airport. The airport is home to the Warhawk Air Museum, which has a reception-worthy hangar full of vintage airplanes, and the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF), a faith-based, non-profit ministry which has a chapel overlooking the airport and a staff member who just happens to be a wedding planner.