Welcome to our happily ever after!

We met less than a handful of times before our story really began. The first time was way back when Lauren was in 8th grade and Joe was a freshman in high school at the Panera Bread in Northvale. Fast forward another four years and we were hanging out again at Sacred Heart University (Lauren to tour the school; Joe to visit his future best man Al). But our real love story didn't begin for another seven years. On St. Patrick's Day weekend of 2019, our mutual friend Marty invited a bunch of people to go into the city. And whether it was through luck or more probably through God's will they were the only two friends that could make it. A few too many drinks, a phone saved from a toilet, and a day that they both can't quite fully remember sounds like a recipe for disaster but were the perfect ingredients to create a never-ending life together.