down the aisle

Harmony Kaufman & Charlie Lopez

Ocho Rios, Jamaica. When Charlie proposed to Harmony last summer, there were fireworks — literally.

The Bronx couple was standing on Riverside Drive, watching the Macy’s Fourth of July spectacle with Charlie’s two children when he gave her the ring.

Charlie kept his plans a secret from everyone but his teenage daughters and one of Harmony’s best friends, whom he commissioned to help pick out the ring.

“People would have blabbered it,” he says with a laugh.

Harmony was taken aback; her first answer was “Are you serious?” then “Thank you,” finally followed by a “Yes.”

Their engagement came after a courtship of seven years.

Charlie, 37, and Harmony, 31, met as co-workers at an audio/video company and soon became friends.

“She was different from other girls I dated and hung out with,” says Charlie, an audio/video technician. “I never met anybody like her, so I guess I got lucky with this one.”

For Harmony, a receptionist at a Manhattan hospital, it was a case of opposites attract.

“We grew up differently, from different cultures,” she says. “We introduced each other to a bunch of new things, and it’s our differences that keep us together and keep us going. It’s always something new.”

Charlie and Harmony were married in Jamaica at Beaches Ocho Rios Resort & Golf Club.

“If we got married in New York, all my friends and family would have had to travel anyway,” says Harmony, a San Diego native, “so we thought, ‘Let’s make a vacation out of it.’ ”

About 20 friends and family members traveled to the sunny destination for the week-long celebration.

“I’m not a typical bride,” says Harmony. “I didn’t want to run around and pick out napkins and meet with photographers.”

She says she got to do all the fun things associated with a wedding without the stress and had a wonderful time dress-shopping with her mother and grandmother, who came all the way from California to help her pick out the perfect mermaid gown.

The couple said “I do” on the beach with Harmony holding a bouquet of shells and tropical flowers.