Roddick, Decker to wed

STAFF REPORT

Tennis star Andy Roddick and swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker, an Ohio native who once lived in Butler County's Madison Township, are getting married this weekend, a source told People magazine.

The 26-year-old Roddick and the 21-year-old Decker plan to celebrate the nuptials with two days of festivities near Roddick's Austin, Texas, home.

"They wanted to keep it local," the source said. And very private. The pared-down guest lists includes mostly family and a few close friends of the pair, who met when Roddick spotted Decker in a magazine and asked his agent to find her number.

Roddick met Decker, who has appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, in New York last year and proposed to her in early March.

"I was stalked. He'll tell you that," she joked last May. But "it was charming. He was charming. Eventually, I fell for it, and five months later I called him back and that was that," Decker added.

Part of the celebration is under way. This past weekend, the festivities kicked off with a bachelorette party in Decker's native North Carolina, and included her bridesmaids, including fellow SI model Julie Henderson.

She added that planning for her wedding was surprisingly fun: "This has been the happiest time. I'm very much a tomboy and this is being a total girl, being with my friends and my mom. We're shopping for a dress right now."

Roddick has also expressed his excitement. "We feel lucky to have found one another," Roddick said last March, after he had popped the question to his girlfriend, and even joked of her Tiffany engagement ring: "I got it in a gumball machine."

Decker was born in Kettering, where her mother attended nursing school.