Excited to celebrate our marriage with you!

Instead of the 2020 wedding and reception we had envisioned, we tied the knot in a small backyard ceremony, that we’ll always cherish, on Sept 6, 2020. We still haven’t given up committing our marriage and celebrating it with our friends and family. After navigating a(nother) recent venue cancellation, we are happy to announce that we are celebrating Labor Day weekend, 2021 in San Diego, CA. We recognize there's still a lot more uncertainty than in a normal year, so if you feel comfortable attending, we would be thrilled to have you.

All events are outdoors. The ceremony is in a parking lot and seated dinner/dancing is on a grassy lawn, across the street from the ocean. Dinner is a buffet with servers who will serve the food. Guests are seated at round tables of 8-10 people. We currently aren’t planning to require masks since it’s outdoors, but we will see how things evolve and what guidance is at the time of the wedding. There are currently 185 people coming. We believe 90-100% of guests are vaccinated - our extended family is vaccinated and so are friends who we have talked to. The Rehearsal Dinner and Welcome Drinks are at an outdoor cafe and we have the entire place for our party- The Breeze is aptly named for the ocean breeze that blows through. Farewell breakfast will also be outdoors in the beautiful, large backyard of our dear friends. As always, we’ll stay up to date with the latest public health guidelines, be ready to move to Plan B if needed, and communicate that out to you. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask- we have fielded plenty and questions and curveballs trying to plan this event and information is power!

We are keeping the wedding night (Sunday) without children. We would love you to be able to enjoy yourselves! Feel free to bring your kids to other events. Some San Diego friends have used Sitterwise as a service to find babysitters.

Like many millennials, it all started with an App. Henry opened Hinge one day in October 2018, saw Danielle's lovely smiling profile photos, and swiped as hard left as he could. Danielle also wisely swiped left. Our "Hinge" mutual friend was Kristy Skelly- one of Henry's closest friends and Danielle's co-worker. Our first date was meeting up in front of the Conservatory of Flowers at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. We took a walk through the park, then had a beer at nearby Kezar's Pub (where we ran into one of Danielle's cousins, who fortunately did not need to intervene to cut off the date). Danielle instantly noticed Henry's stand-out curiosity (asked lot of probing/awkwardly forward questions) and attentive listening skills. A couple dates later in mid-November 2018, Henry and Danielle found themselves on a wooden bench at sunset in SF's Presidio, and they decided to try really "dating" (whatever that meant). Over the next year, they grew their relationship through many fun experiences -- get-aways in Sea Ranch, Tahoe, Oahu, Palm Springs, Portland, Big Sur, Pt. Reyes, Newport Beach, New York, San Diego and Seattle; longer vacations in the wilderness of Japan, house boating at Lake Powell, and skiing in Mammoth; and through it all, lots of time with each other's families and friends. Among other things, they discovered that they prefer their eggs, coffee and hoppy beer just the same way, both get excited about leftovers and meals out of tupperware, and otherwise share the critical things that great marriages are built upon.

It was a truly spectacular day for us both. It started with Henry surprising Danielle by proposing in front of the Conservatory of Flowers on February 1, 2020 (476 days after they first met there), with the added surprise that both of Danielle's sisters and their husbands had come in from out of town and popped out of the bushes to celebrate with us in the beautiful mid-day sun. We then went back to Danielle's apartment, which Henry and the siblings had secretly decorated when she was out in the morning, and made brunch and played a little clue challenge that led Danielle to the last surprise of the day -- dinner that night with both of our sets of parents (the first time that they had met!)