Danielle was born and raised in Westchester, NY, went to College in Dobbs Ferry and studied speech language pathology. Michael, a few years older, grew up in Bronxville, NY. He went to college in CT and studied education and history. One fateful summer, these two kids’ paths would finally cross at a Rye Summer School program where they were both working. Danielle, a speech therapist, and Michael a teacher. Danielle instinctively, and perhaps unknowingly, knew the way to his heart — She made him cupcakes for his birthday. After that he promptly asked her on a date & the rest is, as they say, history! Two years later, while vacationing through Italy, Michael finally (after months of planning) asked Danielle to be his wife, in an olive grove in his maternal grandparents’ home town of Colle Sannita!