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If you want to get us something, please consider donating to our house down payment fund! You can gift us a donation via Venmo (@neilgeorge) or Zelle (415-481-7787). There will also be a mailbox for cards at the reception.

Lisa and Peter Voit have been working hard to plan out a week of fun, classy celebrations for Anna and Neil! Please check out the Schedule of Events page for more information!

People often ask us how we met - and the short answer is at an Improv show in Fremont. The long answer includes our bearded dragon named Fry, our buddies Yap and Amanda, and an out-of-business karaoke bar. But you'll have to wait until the reception to hear that story. But the fun part happens after that. We began dating shortly after we met and had our first date in a dive bar in Oakland with a horrible live band. It was too loud to talk, so we mostly drank in silence and watched Jurassic Park on the bar's TVs, holding hands, and occasionally commenting on the film. It sounds horrible when we try to describe it, but it was actually pretty magical and we had a really good time. Later, we moved in together into Neil's apartment in San Francisco. Soon we knew we wanted to build a life together, so we decided we were ready to take the leap and get married! Neil proposed during our Valentine's Day trip to Monterey at sunset in a conveniently placed gazebo on the beach. Anna was so happy that she almost forgot to say yes! We got married at San Francisco City Hall. It took 20 minutes for us to do the paperwork, five minutes for the ceremony, and 30 minutes to take a bunch of photos around City Hall. It was perfect, we highly recommend it! We were the first couple of the day to get married, so we walked up to the wedding circle with the officiant and our guests, stepped inside the circle to do the ceremony, exchanged vows and did the kiss, then took approximately five photos before the officiant said, "Congratulations! You need to vacate the circle because I need to wed the next couple." He then pointed to a line of five other gorgeous couples waiting their turn that we didn't even realize had begun lining up. We laughed and gave them our well wishes and went about our day - taking photos and having brunch, typical wedding day things. After that, lots has changed and lots has stayed the same. The biggest change was adopting our forever pup, Chip. We were gifted a cat, Ravi. We moved twice and hope to buy a house. And we are planning to have a baby in the next couple of years, if it works out. So we hope that you can make it to our California Reception (since few of you could make it to India for that one)! We are looking forward to celebrating our relationship with everyone! With Love, the George-Voits. Below: India at Christmastime