New York Daily News

Adrienne Ingham & Stanley Lewis

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Brooklyn. Adrienne was the rare bride who welcomed the rain on her wedding day.

She and Stanley, who friends call “Alex,” met through mutual friends in 2009. “We danced and we talked and we laughed,” she remembers of the night they met. HeH He askedk dh her out exactly one week later.

“We dated ever since,” she says.

Alex, 34, president of Stanley Lewis Plumbing & Heating, proposed in December 2012. Adrienne, 31, who works for Citi Private Bank, had told him she wanted to go ice skating.

So Alex rented a room at the Standard Hotel, which boasted a pop-up ice skating rink, and surprised her with a few romantic arrangemen­ts.

He took her out for dinner in the Meatpackin­g District, and they returned to find their hotel room full of roses. Alex got down on his knee and proposed.

Their ceremony and reception were held at the Dyker Beach Golf Course in Brooklyn.

The Kings County couple — she grew up in Bensonhurs­t, and he was raised in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens — wanted the borough to be the star of their wedding. Guests were greeted by tags in their hotel rooms that read, “Welcome to Brooklyn!”

They included music from his West Indian background and her Puerto Rican and Italian roots.

“We wanted to dance the night away, and that’s exactly what we did,” says the bride.

The day’s torrential downpours couldn’t dampen her spirits.

“You just saw the rain coming down sideways,” says the bride. “That was supposed to make the day dreary, but it just gave such a beautiful backdrop.”

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