Victoria Lockyer (L) and DeeAnna Dederer leave Windsor Town Hall after a civil ceremony declared them married. This is the fiftieth year the town has offered free weddings at Town Hall. Photograph by MARK MIRKO | mmirko@courant.com

HARTFORD, CT - 2.14.2012 - LOVE AMBUSH - Rev. Victor Gomez (from left) and Rev. Armando Hernandez, both of New Haven, pray with other members of the Interfaith Fellowship for Universal Health Care in Connecticut outside the SustiNet Health Care Cabinet meeting at the DEP on Tuesday morning. The fellowship then organized a "love ambush" and delivered a Valentine's Day message to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office. The fellowship is disappointed that Gov. Malloy has not worked more closely on a public health care option. PATRICK RAYCRAFT | praycraft@courant.com

WETHERSFIELD - 2/14/12 - Wearing trademark red bow ties and cummerbunds, A barbershop quartet from the Silk City Chorus had a full day on Tuesday, Valentines Day, visiting couples, spouses, and retirement homes from nine in the morning to eight at night entertaining surprised recipients with classic barbershop quartet harmonies. STEPHEN DUNN | sdunn@courant.com

WETHERSFIELD - 2/14/12 - Sam Hurewitz, left, has been dating Terri Planco for 3 years and she decided to surprise Sam with a singing valentine Tuesday morning while they had there usual weekly breakfast at the Wethersfield Diner for Valentine's Day. A barbershop quartet from the Silk City Chorus belted out several classic tunes as Sam looked on in stunned amazement. The singers are, from left to right: Jim Nolan of Glastonbury, Dave Kinkead of Glast, Frank Lehninger of Enfield and Cameron Bailey of Cromwell. "This is the most special man, right here," siad Planco, "He'll either love it or hate it. He did both." IAcross from Sam inthe booth is his friend, Sal Salvato, who, with his wife, Dorothy, joins Terri and Sam for breakfast at the diner every Tuesday. STEPHEN DUNN | sdunn@courant.com

HARTFORD - February 13, 2012 - Employees of the House of Flora were busily packaging 3,000 long-stem-red roses into half and full dozen bundles in anticipation of Valentines day on rush on Tuesday. Victor Borrero, of Hartford, delivers more roses to a make-shift rose assembly line in the basement of the New Britain Ave. florist. Borrero and a co-worker pruned blemished petals off the roses to sell separately, before packaging them. RICHARD MESSINA | rmessina@courant.com

HARTFORD - February 13, 2012 - Employees of the House of Flora were busily packaging 3,000 long-stem-red roses into half and full dozen bundles in anticipation of Valentines day on rush on Tuesday. Victor Borrero, of Hartford, delivers more roses to a make-shift rose assembly line in the basement of the New Britain Ave. florist. Borrero and a co-worker pruned blemished petals off the roses to sell separately, before packaging them. RICHARD MESSINA | rmessina@courant.com

NEW HAVEN - 02.13.2012 - Reflected in a flower vase, Kelly Cho, the owner of Gourmet Heaven in New Haven, makes flower bouquets inside her store. Cho says she usually orders about 1000 flowers per week but doubles that for Valentine's Day. MARK MIRKO | mmirko@courant.com

NORMAN, Oklahoma - 02/13/12 The University of Connecticut head coach Geno Auriemma pleads with a player during their game against Oklahoma at the Lloyd Noble Center. UConn won, 73-55. CLOE POISSON | cpoisson@courant.com

WINDSOR - 02.14.2012 - Windsor residents Mark Baldwin, 51, and Gloria Baldwin, 53, tied the knot, literally, as part of their Valentine's Day marriage ceremony today at Windsor Town Hall. This was the first marriage for both. MARK MIRKO | mmirko@courant.com

WINDSOR, CT - 02.14.2012 - In front of a collection of photographs of Windsor couples who have been married on Valentine's Day -- and Victoria Lockyer's little brother Nicholas Noble -- , DeeAnna Dederer (L) and Victoria Lockyer kiss during a civil ceremony declaring them married. This is the fiftieth year the town has offered free weddings at Town Hall. Photograph by MARK MIRKO | mmirko@courant.com