Top Chef winner Harold Dieterle weds in Atlanta

After winning the first series of Bravo reality show Top Chef in 2006, Manhattan restaurant owner Harold Dieterle attended the annual Food + Wine Cooking Expo in Aspen, Colorado - one of his prizes for winning. It was there, at an event after party, that he met fellow foodie Meredith Davies. Together almost four years, they married Saturday, September 4 in Davies' hometown of Atlanta.

The ceremony took place at a downtown church, followed by a reception at the Capital City Club of Atlanta. Davies wore a Pnina Tornai gown for the ceremony, and Dieterle wore a white dinner jacket by Paul Stuart.

Though Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio couldn't attend due to filming commitments, fellow season one competitors Lee Anne Wong and Stephen Aspirinio were among the 175 guests who watched the couple share their first dance to Ray LaMontagne's "You Are the Best Thing," and who dined on a menu catered by the club. Dieterle stayed far from the kitchen for his wedding day - he told People he didn't even know what was going to be on the menu!

The newlyweds left today for an Italian honeymoon in Rome, Positano, and Sicily.

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PHOTO CREDIT: Courtesy Harold Dieterle

First Top Chef winner to wed

At last night's Emmy Awards, Bravo reality show Top Chef nabbed the Best Reality Competition Program statue from The Amazing Race for the first time in the categories history, and now the show's first winner has announced he's getting married - and without the show, he may never have met his bride-to-be.

Manhattan-based chef Harold Dieterle won Top Chef in 2006, and one of his prizes was a trip to the Food + Wine Expo in Aspen, Colorado. At an event after-party he met Atlanta native Meredith Davies.

Dieterle and Davies will wed at the Capital City Country Club in Brookhaven, near Atlanta, Georgia on September 4th, and will honeymoon in Rome, Positano, and Sicily.

Source: PEOPLE

PHOTO CREDIT: Harold Dieterle