round TWO

Last year, we were lucky to be able to celebrate with 50 of our closest family and friends, but now we are ready to PARTY! Hope you can join us for Round 2 aka Our Vow Renewal on 10.17.2021!

Our story really began in 2004 at DePaul Catholic High School in Wayne, NJ. Out of a graduating class of maybe 200 students, we never shared a single class, study period or lunch together in all 4 years. We were friends of friends of friends; but it is hard to not recognize two of the tallest people in the school. The only thing Bobby knew about Alex was that she hung around all the cool kids and the only thing Alex knew about Bobby was that he could rip a phone book in half. Fast forward to 2014, our paths crossed on OkCupid. With a memo of 'I like tall men... what can I say I'm a tall lady', Bobby recognized her familiar face and swipes right. We accept each other and start messaging. We plan to meet up for drinks at Blu Ale House in Butler NJ on October 30th where Bobby could show Alex 'he was more than just his height.' And he was. We spent the whole night talking about people we knew, our jobs, playing stupid little games and giving some killer commentary to each other about the participants riding the mechanical bull. We fell for each other. 6 years go by. We try many restaurants. We visit a few states. We start lifting together. We Netflix and chill. We start jobs. We leave jobs. We gamble. We get a dog. We move in together. We further our education. We lose loved ones. We buy a house together. We continue to laugh and continue to love each other.

The story of our engagement is nothing fancy or out of a story book because that is honestly not us- and it probably will never will be. Alex had choreographed her spring musical at NJCU and we had just had a night where many friends and family came out to see the show in support of the scholarship in memory of her father. If you ask around, many people thought Bobby was just going to jump on stage after the show and profess his love for Alex and ask her to marry him in front of an audience. But if you know anything about Bobby that was NEVER going to happen. The next morning rolls around and while Alex's family is packing up, Bobby had planned to go pick up the ring. Being up way too late the night before, Alex goes to take a nap on the couch, still in her pajamas, hair a mess and not a stitch of makeup on- just how he loves her. He comes in to wake her up and she knows something is up. His hands were freezing- which they never are. She asks if everything was ok, and he said he was nervous. Alex asked why he would be nervous to which Bobby then says because he is going to ask her to marry him. He pulls out this black box and inside is the perfect ring for her. No one in the other room knew what was going on but heard some commotion and came in to the room to see what was happening. They were engaged on March 31, 2019- plain and simple as that!