Dear friends and family, In light of COVID-19, we wanted to let you know our wedding is going forward as planned. As always, your health and safety are our top priority, and we completely understand if you’re no longer able to attend. Our wedding will be outside under a tent and we are expecting about 200 attendees. Thank you for your understanding and stay well! Xoxo Maria and Patrick

Although both having attended Kent School, Patrick and I met during high school at Gunston Day School. Patrick asked me to participate in a canoe race during our traditional Green and White day games. We won, of course, and the rest is history! We had too much fun during our college years at Auburn University, fell in love with Savannah, Georgia and have come full circle back on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where we first met and live now. Here is the facebook message Patrick sent me to ask me on our first date.. "Dear Miss Maria/Canoe Race Co-Champion, I am writing you an interrogative letter in reference to the date in which we are to go fishing. Please contact me via facebook, or mobile cellular telephone. Sincerely, Patrick E. Gillespie/Canoe Race Co-Champion He certainly does have a lot of character and charisma; he keeps me on my toes and I can't wait to marry him and spend the rest of my life by his side!