Meet us in the mountains

We are excited to celebrate our wedding with all of the people we love (that means you!). As we're sure you already know, Eric hails from St. Louis, MO and Genevieve from Cleveland, OH (and family now all over the US!) While this made for a lot of fun road trips over the years (with Penny Lane riding along), we realized that it made finding the perfect wedding venue a bit more difficult. Wherever we wanted to celebrate, the majority of friends and family would be forced to travel. So, we decided to make it a road trip for everyone and picked a beautiful estate nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains. With every guest traveling from out of town, it made perfect sense to transform our wedding night into an extended wedding weekend! This set up provides everyone with the opportunity to spend quality time catching up with friends and family while enjoying the serenity of a wooded walk and the peaceful spaces of a private mountain getaway. We invite you to join us for a very unique wedding experience at Hawkesdene Estate for a multi-day, all-inclusive, mini-vacation celebration. We will have the entire 64-acre estate to ourselves replete with food, beverages, bonfires, llamas, lawn games, hiking trails, and—of course—all of our loved ones. We encourage our guests to stay Thursday through Sunday. Please see the FAQ page for further information.

Genevieve and Eric were lucky enough to have been introduced by a mutual friend, Tami Fournier (thanks Tami!) at a party she threw at her apartment in Baltimore in November 2017. Tami had lost her phone that night and had to fly out to California the next morning for Thanksgiving so Genevieve and Eric worked together to find it and overnight ship it to her the next day. Tami had been "pitching" Genevieve and Eric to each other for months and had been showing pictures of one to the other. There were many times where Genevieve and Eric were supposed to have met at a party or Toyota event but had just missed each other. The pre-Thanksgiving meet happened just weeks after Tami and Genevieve had taken a trip to Mill Valley, CA together to visit Genevieve's Uncle Joey Hiti (wedding officiant) and Aunt Jan Hiti. Shortly after meeting, Eric and Genevieve had their first date at Verde Pizza in Baltimore on December 1st, 2017. Fast forward exactly 5 years, the arrival date for our wedding weekend!