Our story starts on St. Patrick's Day, 2017, at a friend's party, where we met by chance through friends of friends. Our first date was only a week later, with coffee, a walk around Greenlake, and Patrick met Ellie and fell madly in love (with his future fur baby). We slowly developed into a partnership, and on September 21, 2019, Patrick got down on one knee on the beach in Westport at sunset, where we promised each other our forevers. After a rescheduling of our wedding from October 24, 2020 to May, 2021, and with covid-19 rates still high and vaccination disbursement lower than ideal, in January of 2021 we decided to switch from a large wedding to a small, intimate ceremony with a limited number of close friends and direct family members. We will still be getting married the first weekend of May, but we plan to host an anniversary party in May of 2022 with all of our original guests, so please keep an eye out for your invitation by mail early next year. We cannot wait to finally dance and toast with all of you! "Now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read; which goes on forever; in which every chapter is better than the one before." -C.S. Lewis