LOS LINDOS WEDDING

Mathias had lived his entire life in Denmark and I in Guatemala but we both had always dreamt about studying abroad. In 2016 we both had our eye on Hult San Francisco and after getting accepted, the school invited us on a trip to visit the city 6 months before potentially moving there. Mathias was the very first person I met from school after we found out we were arriving in SF for that trip the same day. The day we met I took him to visit my favorite neighborhood (The Mission) and as life happens we even spent time in the exact park where one year later we would find our first home together. After 6 months of texting and facetiming from our home countries, we finally moved to San Francisco and our life together began. The city will always have a very special place in our hearts as the place we met and our first home. Shortly after moving away, we named our puppy Pancha (Francisca from San Francisco). - Lisa

I decided to spend the Christmas of 2016 together with Lisa in Guatemala. It was the first time ever I was visiting the country, so we spent quite a lot of time seeing friends, family, and an abundance of beautiful destinations around Guatemala. It was on one of those trips we visited the Cerro Santo Domingo, and ever since that visit we both knew that we wanted to get married there one day. As I think many couples do, you try to wait for that perfect moment to propose, you want to make sure you're in a stable place in your life ready to take that next step. But living in San Francisco never really offered that "perfect" moment, and neither did living in Guatemala, adopting a puppy, COVID-19 raging across the planet, so I guess the point is, we can't keep waiting and waiting, and I knew I wanted to marry Lisa! With some guidance from Lisa's best friend, Vic, I was able to navigate the streets of Guatemala and procure myself exactly the ring that I imagined Lisa would love, and I got to planning the proposal in the place we 4 years earlier had visited together and talked about as the venue for our future wedding. Everything (almost...) went to plan, I managed to set up the camera under the guise of wanting to take a picture together with the beautiful view in the background overlooking the Antigua and the surrounding mountains, I got on one knee, and, luckily, she said YES!