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We’re looking forward to celebrating with you! Formal invitations to follow.
We’re looking forward to celebrating with you! Formal invitations to follow.

Join Us In Celebrating Forever

Kevin Mendez

and

Ashley DiMarco

August 15, 2026

New Rochelle, NY
46 days46 d12 hours12 h24 minutes24 min56 seconds56 s

Proof That Timing Has It’s Own Love Language

Their story began on November 19, 2016. Ashley was nineteen. Kevin was twenty-one. It happened the way the most meaningful beginnings often do—unannounced, unassuming, disguised as an ordinary night with friends. It was less like meeting someone new and more like finding someone you hadn’t realized you’d been waiting for. From that night on, life stopped moving in straight lines. It began to fold inward, their paths weaving closer with every shared day. When Ashley entered Kevin’s life, Aaron was just one year old—bright-eyed, curious, full of laughter. He was the center of Kevin’s universe, and it didn’t take long for him to become the center of Ashley’s too. Together, they became a family not by title, but by choice—formed in shared mornings, small traditions, inside jokes, growing pains, and a love that expanded naturally to hold all three of them. Parenthood reshaped them. It softened what needed softening and strengthened what needed to endure. Through Aaron, they learned patience, humility, and the depth of unconditional love—lessons that changed them forever. Their world grew fuller with the arrival of Mia on October 10, 2020, and later Mela on May 28, 2025—two small souls who left permanent imprints on their hearts. With them came more laughter, more tenderness, and the quiet realization that love does not divide when shared; it multiplies. They grew together through uncertainty, change, and the sacred education of loving another person fully. They learned that love lives not only in joy, but in the discipline of showing up again and again. After seven years of choosing one another, they set off in August 2023 for Italy. Venice shimmered in reflection. Rome breathed history. Sorrento unfolded slowly. Positano took their breath away. Each place felt impossibly beautiful, as though the world itself had paused to let them live the dream they had so carefully imagined. On September 8, 2023, off the coast of Positano, Kevin asked Ashley to spend forever with him. On a boat suspended between sky and sea, time seemed to stand still. Ashley said yes—not to a moment, but to a lifetime. It was not a beginning born of chance, but the continuation of everything they had already lived. Now they stand at the edge of their next chapter—guided by faith, anchored by family, and surrounded by friends who have long since become family. They carry every version of themselves that led them here: the young souls who met by accident, the parents who learned by doing, the partners who chose love even when it required courage. This is not the end of their story. It is the continuation of one that always knew where it was going. Forever begins here.

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