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October 17, 2020
Pittsburgh, PA

Rafael & Kristen

    Black and Gold Wedding in the Steel City
    Schedule

Kristen

Stabingas

&

Rafael

Diaz-Garcia

October 17, 2020

Pittsburgh, PA

UPDATE: PLEASE READ

9/9/2020

Update: In light of COVID-19, we wanted to let you know our wedding is going forward on the originally planned date, but we've had to relocate to an outdoor venue to comply with safety guidelines and allow for more than 20 people. Please join us at the Omni Bedford Springs Resort. If you’re no longer able to attend, we completely understand. You can update your RSVP anytime on our site, and we wish you health and safety during this difficult time.

Black and gold wedding in a revised locale

Welcome one and all to our wedding site. We are so excited to share this momentous weekend in our lives with each and every one of you. Obviously, COVID-19 has made wedding planning interesting this year. Pennsylvania currently has restrictions on any events with greater than 25 participants indoors. Consequently, our wedding will be relocated to the Omni Bedford Springs Resort, where we can recreate our wedding plans and allow for social distancing. Please use this website as an information resource, but reach out if other questions arise.

How We Met

Forbidden Love

We met in the hospital, as cliché as it sounds. She was the neurosurgery intern on my service, I was the new attending plastic surgeon in the hospital. We kept the relationship purely professional for months, then friends for years. Our relationship trajectory wasn't the most direct, and it took 2.5 years to actually make a go of it... but once it happened? It was clearly meant to be...

The Proposal

"Don't ever propose on a holiday..."

We had dated for two months, and Raf was already planning on proposing... Fast forward to New Years Eve 2018, and Raf recreated key parts of our first date as part of the night's affair. A chauffeured S class took us to Superior Motors and then to the Fairmont Hotel. Raf tricked Kris about negotiating a last minute room, only to find French champagne, red roses, chocolate covered strawberries and view finder filled with photos from the last year. The last slide said, "KC, will you marry me?", and when she looked down, Raf was on one knee holding a ring box.

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