We’re getting married!

They met at a Y2K themed 30th birthday party. She was dressed as Nicole Richie from ‘the Simple Life’ and he was wearing a Notorious B.I.G. ‘Life After Death’ shirt…I guess that’s a costume 😏 Their second meeting was a halloween party, she was dressed as a goddess and maybe he had a costume, but probably not. Are you sensing a theme? Well it was love at first site…for one of them. He asked his friend “what’s up with her” and he told him he “didn’t have a chance.” To be continued…

The pandemic brought their friend group closer together. From rooftop and park hangs…still 6 feet apart to finally breaking the COVID seal and *gasp* being indoors. Jordan and Kelly were seeing each other nearly twice a week by end of Summer, and finally getting to know each other beyond general acquiaintances. It was Jordan’s birthday and Kelly had just started her new job at LA Waterkeeper and was hounding him about the sustainability of water usage in the cannabis industry. “But are you recycling your wastewater?!” If that’s not a recipe for romance, I don’t know what is…

From a seemingly inocuous text asking her to hangout bloomed a budding romance. Kelly’s on her way for a friends weekend trip to a cabin, and is totally thrown off by this first 1-1 communication. She asks “do you mean like just us, or with the friends.” He plays it cools and responds “whichever.” And a secret flirty exange of messages during a 5 hour car ride ensues…she secretly passes the phone to her friend sitting in the front seat and giggles wondering what this means. One week later, and a 1 hour beach walk turns into 4+ hours sitting and talking in the now dark and cold sand. They rejoin their friends for another rooftop hang now very tardy to the party. One month later, Kelly’s tagging along to Sedona where Jordan and another couple are spending Thanksgiving. And it’s safe to say that this is where they fell in love…a very special place to them, hence the invition to celebrate their love Sedona-adjacent.

New Years in Vegas with Jordan’s parents was a blast…but oh no they cought COVID and brought home a new puppy! A month…yes a month of quarantining in an apartment bedroom with a potty training puppy will certainly try a relationship. And other than the fevers, coughs and headaches (mostly Kelly because Jordan coasted right through) it was a dream. Quarantine turned into defacto moving in, and eventually moving out to get our own place in April 2021.

Sedona Thanksgiving #2 and we knew this was where we wanted to say our “I Do’s.” Where our love first blossomed, was also where we found out our family was growing with a baby on the way. We were already quietly planning a wedding for November 2022…Kelly had everything booked within about 48 hours of deciding on a date. She’s been planning every detail of her family’s vacations since she was 10, so to those who know and love her this is no surprise. And just a few days later they got unexpected good news…a happy accident meant they’d be welcoming Kinsley Shannon McNeill late July 2022. With the wedding already planned, and a baby on the way 2022 was promising to be a very special year!