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Update: Due to COVID-19, we’ve decided to postpone our wedding. We hope you’ll save our new date Oct 9 — you can RSVP anytime on our site after receiving an invitation. Wishing you all health and safety, and looking forward to celebrating together!
Update: Due to COVID-19, we’ve decided to postpone our wedding. We hope you’ll save our new date Oct 9 — you can RSVP anytime on our site after receiving an invitation. Wishing you all health and safety, and looking forward to celebrating together!
October 9, 2021
San Diego, CA
#SDinSD

Danielle & Stephen

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Stephen Kelly

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Danielle Jaksha

#SDinSD

San Diego

CA

October 9

2021

How We Met - His Story

Well, Danielle and I met in November of 2018 during our Senior Year at West Point. One of my great friends, Jinwon Seo, was in the same capstone class as her, and one night he decided to invite both myself and Danielle out to go to the Firstie Bar on post. We played a video game called League of Legends together, and would team up and have fun online almost every day. During Christmas Break I started to notice that Danielle was someone special. We watched the College Football National Championship together with a big friend group, and she was really fun, charming, and a great person. A week or so later we then went to get sushi with more friends, both subtly throwing signs towards each other that we liked each other. Her and my friends (purposely) ditched us out of the blue on a Saturday Night, leaving just us two. We decided to go to the Firstie by ourselves, and chatted for a few hours, really being the first time we got to know each other in depth. Since that point we have clicked extremely well and are now getting married, who would have thought?

How We Met - Her Story

First comes school, then comes marriage.

How did Stephen and I go 3.5 years at the same school without running into each other ONCE, a semester away from graduating? We were even majoring in the same department! Thanks to one of our good friends and groomsman, Jin Seo, it finally happened in late 2018. We met each other while going to the local school bar but honestly didn't think much of each other. Cool, another nerd who plays League of Legends, I could always use another partner to play with right? Well neither of us knew we'd end up as partners for life, oops! It wasn't until December when we finally started to think of each other romantically (I credit my sick gamer moves for that) and we started going on little dates here and there. He would tell me about his Electrical Engineering capstone and how to solve a Rubik's cube the most efficiently, and you wouldn't believe me, but I was hooked from then on. I got to know how sweet, genuine, funny, smart, and naturally talented Stephen is, although you won't find him bragging about any of those things! I am one lucky lady to have Stephen.

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