Who knew that running a half marathon in Seattle would lead to #honeysgetmarried?! Mandy Moon, Laura's Lake Louise mail order Korean bride and Anson's long time friend, had to brow beat Laura into a side trip to Sonoma after surviving 13.1 miles and a busted knee (Mandy is clumsy) in Seattle. After chauffeuring Mandy and Laura from winery to winery, Anson knew he'd met THE ONE and went in for a bold first kiss on day two of the trip.
After doing long distance trips and thousands of miles between Boston and San Francisco, Anson and Laura's story changed again when they surprised the world with the news of moving in together and Laura moving to California.
Anyone who knows Laura knows she's been married to work for quite some time. Trying to pry her away from work on a busy Friday was no easy feat. Imagine trying to also plan a surprise engagement when we already had a trip to Paris on the books one week later. After lots of co-conspiring with Laura's Meadowood work-wife Stephanie and Anson's Sonoma work-wife Isabel, Stephanie successfully kidnapped Laura from work for a surprise trip to Hanzell Vineyards, the very same location that Laura and Anson had their first kiss nearly three years before. Standing in the pouring rain in front of the same tree, in the same vineyard, on the same hill from three years earlier.... "From the first kiss to the rest of our lives, I cant imagine a day without you"
We want to say goodbye to the 'new normal' and go back to the old one where we can laugh, dance and eat with all our favorite people. Here's to hoping by 2023 the World is less fucked up!