We're having a wedding! (For real this time)

With the health and safety of our family and friends in mind, we made the difficult decision to cancel our wedding as it was originally planned on June 20, 2020. Instead, we opted for a small legal ceremony with immediate family that took place in the backyard of Zoe's parent's house in Fontana, Wisconsin on July 11, 2020. Although it wasn't the big wedding that we were looking forward to, we enjoyed the intimacy of the ceremony and are so glad that we were still able to get married in spite of everything that this year has thrown at us! Looking forward to 2021, we are optimistic that life will be back to normal by the end of the summer (fingers crossed!) and we can't wait to celebrate our marriage with everyone! We'll be having a ceremony at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago and a reception to follow at the Drake Hotel. You may notice that the church is different than the one we had planned on last time - a serendipitous consequence of the pandemic is that we'll now be getting married in the same church where Zoe's parents were married 34 years ago! Given how turbulent these times are, we'll be using this website as a primary means of communication for any updates we may have as the day gets closer. The health and safety of our friends and family continues to be a top priority for us and we're praying that we'll be able to gather together in August!

We first met each other the second week of freshman year at Georgia Tech, having both joined the same campus organization. Our paths crossed occasionally throughout our first few years at Georgia Tech, but we didn't really get to know each other until our junior year, when we had a class together in the business school. We started dating, and, in a bid to give Zoe ammunition for every argument for the rest of our lives, Luke broke up with Zoe after just a couple of months. We interned on opposite sides of the country, but kept in touch the whole summer before senior year of college. We eventually decided to give it another shot and started dating again before coming back to campus for senior year. Luke graduated in 2017 and moved to Seattle for work while Zoe stayed on campus for another year to finish her degree. Thus began a year of weekend trips to the other side of the country, annoying our roommates with incessant video-chatting (sorry, Josh and Kaley), and three hour time differences. Zoe graduated in 2018 and moved out to Seattle for her job as well, starting the year of rain, hiking, and aerospace in the Pacific Northwest. While on a trip back to Atlanta to interview for a job, Luke booked his travel back home through Chicago without telling Zoe (of course she figured this out anyways but played along) and went to a jewelry store with his mother and grandmother to get a diamond ring. Zoe had specified that she didn't want anyone else there when he proposed, so Luke decided to propose in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness. A couple of short weeks later, on a rainy hike in Denali National Park, Luke got down on one knee at a scenic overlook and proposed with the same diamond that his grandfather had given his grandmother in 1951. We moved back to Atlanta the summer of 2019 for Zoe's graduate studies and Luke's new job, and can't wait for our wedding in Chicago on June 20, 2020! (life is never as you expect it to be - see the update on 2020 above).