Welcome!

Christopher was born and raised in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. In 2013 I moved to Bay Ridge to take a job at an immigrant service nonprofit in the neighborhood. Knowing no one, and needing extra money (hello, nonprofit job!), I decided to take a few shifts at a local bar, which happened to be the bar that Christopher was managing. I met Christopher on my first day, and I knew the second I saw him that something important had happened -- I felt like I was meeting someone I had already known my whole life. In the fall of 2018 we got engaged on a goat farm in Vermont. And in the spring of 2019, almost 5 years exactly from the day we met, Christopher bought the bar we met in, which we now run together as a family business. It was only after we got engaged that we realized we had inadvertently carried on a Santosuosso family tradition, which began with my grandparents. My Grandma Florence and Grandpa John met because they lived in the same building, which was situated above my great grandparents' store in Cleveland, Ohio. After my Grandpa returned from the war, my grandparents got married and turned the store into a bar & restaurant, which they ran together. Decades later, my Mom and Dad met when my Mom (just returning from NYC) became a patron at my Dad's restaurant, and she would go on to help him open the restaurant I was raised in. And then, in 2013, I moved to Bay Ridge and walked into Lock Yard, setting in motion the third generation of this tradition. When not working our butts off (we both have full-time jobs and are finishing second degrees, WHILE running a bar) Christopher and I are happiest when fishing off of a dock in Sag Harbor, skiing down a mountain in Vermont, or watching Star Trek with Gordie, our french bulldog. We think we're pretty lucky, and we end each day so grateful to have each other, our families, and our amazing community of friends & neighbors. So we thought it only fitting to celebrate our marriage in the neighborhood that led us to each other.