LINK TO CEREMONY IN ‘SCHEDULE’ TAB

Mutual friend Aaron was invited to Shari’s apartment for a Christmas Eve dinner party and told to bring whoever. Eric turned out to be “whoever.” Sparks flew that night. Enough for the guy Shari was dating at the time to break up with her the following day. The next time they saw each other was April 25, 2020 on Shari’s rooftop, six weeks into the pandemic. Now single and socially distanced, Shari was free to flirt. This led to Eric being included in a group outing in June. Shari and the same friend Aaron were orchestrating a getaway for a small group at a house in the Finger Lakes. Eric was invited again, committing to only the first weekend. After the first night, he changed his plans and stayed the full week. They saw each other almost every day after until Eric left for Los Angeles at the end of June. Unexpectedly, Eric was brought back to New York in July and spent all of his free time with Shari. Once he left back to Los Angeles two weeks later, they were keeping in touch almost daily, Shari went to visit him in Los Angeles in August. On a five day road trip from Los Angeles to Big Sur, to Carmel, to Ojai and back to LA, things escalated quickly again. They had really fallen in love and professed as much to one another in front of a fire in Carmel by the Sea. Two days later, at a pool in Ojai Valley, Eric told Shari he wanted to come back to New York and move in with her. That was just before Labor Day. On September 14, 2020, he did. They haven’t spent a day apart since.