Student Council Camp in Grove City, PA If you’re on this website, you've probably heard the story about how the two of us met at Student Council Camp. That week at camp, Bailey was nominated President of the Green Group, choreographed a team line dance for the talent show, and was put in charge of coordinating a candle lit final vespers ceremony on the very last night. Chris couldn’t help but notice the beauty and sparkle in everything she did from the very first day. After lots of face paint, pretending to be able to dance, and struggling through crafts to spend time with her, he mustered up the courage to ask Bailey to dance at the end of the week. In true Bailey fashion, she had to leave the dance early and host the "Final Vespers Ceremony" that she planned. Without a dance together, they were left with one last connection point before they drove back to their homes 2hrs apart: a mushy love letter goodbye. A true Shakespeare, something he wrote hooked her just enough. Every year we reunited at the student council PASC state conference, which kept Chris involved in student council throughout high school. As senior prom approached, Chris couldn’t have imagined anything better than bringing some good ole countrrry to Garnet Valley. After passing TSA-like background checks from Bailey’s parents as the “up to no good guy from Philly” she unknowingly took a step that would change our lives forever. A couple of weeks later after Bailey made a surprise visit to Chris’s graduation, we started dating!

After enduring a year of long distance, Bailey joined Chris at Penn State’s business school. We were both involved in a number of activities where we met friends that helped shape us into the couple we’ve become today. We shared the thrills of Happy Valley tailgates (including those hosted by Bill and Robin Johnson!), long nights of studying together (most memorably when Chris tutored Bailey in Accounting & Finance), and topped it off with a ballroom dance class together during Chris’s last semester. From there, we were both fortunate enough to get jobs in NYC. After spending several years living separately, we moved in together in a cozy neighborhood of NYC called FiDi in 2018. NYC has delivered on all sorts of life experiences, from bike rides and picnics in Central Park, to annual boat birthday parties, Brooklyn brewery hopping, and late-night living room dance parties with friends and family. We’ve been especially fortunate to have a number of those PSU friends live just around the corner/in the same building! We stuck it out together during the midst of COVID in <600 sqft….and became very well acquainted with each other’s actual voices and “conference call voices” (we’ll let you guess who is the loudest…), but through it all somehow came out even more in love and appreciative of each other’s company.

After quarantine lifted, Chris got to work on plotting how he’d ask Bailey to be his wife for the rest of time. Several months leading up to the date he thought he had it all figured out, a surprise proposal and engagement party in NYC with our immediate families and local friends. Upon going home for Thanksgiving, Bailey sprung into action planning a full-on Christmas party for our immediate families. Of course, she settled on the same date Chris already emailed out to everyone (in a true stroke of “Loggia Luck”). Playing it cool, Bailey unknowingly started planning parts of her own engagement party. When the day finally came, Chris came up with an excuse that we’d meet all of our out-of-town family across the river in DUMBO, Brooklyn for dinner (Bailey's favorite neighborhood). We took a ferry ride across the water and then a romantic walk along the East River. Passing by some of our favorite picnic spots in the park, and stopping right in front of the glowing Brooklyn merry-go-round (Bailey & her Grandmother have a childhood/adulthood obsession with carousels), Chris dropped to a knee with all 3 of our former apartments and NYC skyline in the background in a circle of roses. Bailey said yes and the rest is yet to be written!