We cannot wait to celebrate our marriage with you in October 2022! We are so appreciative and excited for all that can make the trip. We are looking forward to sharing an Aperol spritz with you at Castello Vicchiomaggio, our winery castle venue outside of Florence, Italy. Outside of the wedding on October 4th, we will also be hosting a welcome dinner and post-wedding brunch for all to attend. We will be updating our website as we gather more information about nearby activities and accommodation. Thank you to our amazing wedding planner, Elizabeth, and her team at Original Tuscan Wedding for all of their hard work!

Rosemary's POV: We both moved to Seattle around the same time in 2017. We tried our fair share of online dating on all of the different dating apps with equally bad dating stories to share. After living in Seattle for a year, we both swiped right on Tinder and ended up going to brunch for our first date. Adam's POV: Yes, yes - this is all true, but I'll add some color to the story. Rosemary and I met online, we had just started messaging before I had taken off on an adventure up through Alberta Canada for a week-long solo road trip/vacation. I used the line of sending her pictures of my adventures as an excuse to get her number. We soon had a date to grab brunch once I was back in Seattle the following Sunday. We met for brunch, we were having fun, the conversation moved along nicely, and we decided to continue from brunch to grab a drink by Lake Union. We enjoyed the afternoon sitting outside and getting to know each other. Soon after our date, maybe hours, we made plans to go out to happy hour. We met up, ordered drinks, and were having a present time, but things weren't going anywhere. At this point, I asked if she's want to go over to Bainbridge, an island that's a 30 min ferry ride from downtown. I knew a winery over there we could go to. Little did Rosemary know, but I'm friends with the winery owners and texted them to meet up once I arrived. We landed, ordered wine, and soon Jim and Sharon arrived. We ended up getting so caught up in conversation we missed our ferry back to the city and were left to take the midnight ferry home. We continued to have dinner with Jim and Sharon and then ran back to catch the final ferry of the night. We were woken up by one of the ferry staff once we had landed back in Seattle as we'd fallen asleep in each other's arms. That night changed the trajectory of our relationship going from - "that was nice" to "I can't wait to see where life will go with this person", and the rest is history.

In the fall of 2020, we decided to take off on a grand adventure, pack up everything we owned, list the condo on the market, and drive across the country over the next 6 months with the goal of landing in Nashville as our new home. Days before we took off from Seattle, I picked up the ring that we designed together - and now I just needed to figure out where, when, and how to propose. Easy, right? Anyone that knows Rosemary knows she loves to plan. Being in the middle of a pandemic, when we spend almost every waking moment together, traveling from one tiny Airbnb to the next, made planning a surprise proposal a bit of a more difficult task. At the beginning of October, we took a long weekend to Yellowstone to meet up with friends, then continued to Jackson Hole and the Grand Tetons for a nice weekend to ourselves. I booked a trendy motel in Jackson for a few nights and made a few reservations at some of Jackson's best restaurants. Jackson has a sneaky good food scene, but that maybe isn't shocking after you think about the $$$ that floods into the town, and after you remember we've been spending the past 6 weeks in small towns across Montana and Wyoming, but that's beside the point. We woke up early on Sunday morning, October 4th, to catch the sunrise at Targgart Lake (if you're not familiar, google it, it's stunning). The morning was brisk, a nice cool start to our hike out to the lake. We took in the morning, enjoying the hike, not seeing a single person along the way. We arrived, looking out across the water, with the Grand Teton jutting out in the distance, blown away by the scene. I quickly set up my camera tripod to 'take a couple pictures' and promptly returned to Rose standing on this platform rock that extends above the bank. I got on one knee, fumbled around to pull out the ring, and asked Rosemary to marry me. There is no greater moment than when the love of your life and best friend says one simple word, 'YES'!

If you ask me (Adam), moving to Nashville has been in the cards for over 10 years. It's a fun town, with lots of music (more than just country!) and great work opportunities as I continue my career in Healthcare Technology. Somehow, I convinced Rosemary that this was a great idea without her ever stepping foot in Tennessee until the day we moved. We did a facetime "tour" of a house in East Nashville before we moved and loved it. It's a quaint 1950s red brick ranch home that has all the space we need as we continue to work remote and not drive each other insane. We're excited about our new home, it's familiar but new and different in a way we both really enjoy. We've begun to discover the restaurants, coffee shops, and bars around our neighborhood and we love what we've discovered so far. Best of all - Cafe Roze is less than a half-mile walk from our home. A sign Nashville was meant to be!