Hello Friends and Family, Hope you're doing well and having a good week! Just a few quick reminders: 1. If you haven't sent a wish and would like to do so, today is your last opportunity: https://forms.gle/3Yr3Svg2MYJh2JG1A (or email it to us). 2. If you haven't sent us a picture for our slideshow and would like to, please send us one today! Email or text is great. 3. Feel free to join us this Friday, May 22 for a Zoom practice session from 6pm ET - 7pm ET. (Please note Eastern Time!) 4. We're excited to "see" you this Saturday, May 23 for our wedding! Remember the room will open at 3:45 pm ET and we will start at 4:00 pm ET. (Again, please note Eastern Time!) Thank you! Please let us know if you have any questions. Love, Tina and Billy

Dear Friends and Family, We hope you are all doing well! We have been missing you this weekend, but we're looking forward to celebrating with you soon! Be on the lookout for a small package from us (if you haven't received it already). Zoom Details We're so excited for you to join us virtually on Saturday, May 23rd at 4:00 pm Eastern Time for our Zoom wedding! There is no need to RSVP, but we hope to see you then! The Zoom room will open at 3:45 pm on Saturday. Please "arrive" on time as we will be closing the room during the ceremony. You may need the password in order to join (you can find this below or on the invitation you received in the mail). Zoom link: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/91891364750 You can also join by entering the meeting ID: 918 9136 4750 This will all be on the same Zoom call. Schedule for Saturday, May 23 (All times in Eastern time.) 3:45 pm ET - Zoom room opens 4:00 pm ET - Welcome, Meet & Greet, Ceremony, Breakout Room "Receiving Line" and Pictures! 5:30 pm ET - Break to grab a drink 6:00 pm ET - Toasts 6:45 pm ET - Break to make dinner/snacks 7:15 pm ET - Dinner (at breakout room "tables") 8:00 pm ET - Living room dance party! We would love, love, love pictures of you during the day! Please send them to us via text or email after the celebration, thank you! Homework (One new!) 1. Wishes: If you haven't already sent us a wish, you can do so at the link below (or email us your wish). Please be sure to have this to us by Wednesday, May 20th. https://forms.gle/AxobNzgb5Xk9QMkJ7 2. Photos for slideshow: Please email/text us photos for our slideshow! We would love to include 1) photos of you with us, and/or 2) a photo of you on your wedding day! Please be sure to have this to us by Wednesday, May 20th. We're so excited to see you all! Love, Tina and Billy

Dear Family and Friends, We hope you're all continuing to stay safe and healthy! First, please accept this "Change the Date" notice for our virtual ceremony. We've had to reconfigure our plans (repeatedly), and we've decided to postpone by one week. We will now be holding our virtual ceremony Saturday, May 23. We hope you can still make it! (More details on the schedule to come soon.) Second, we have further details regarding your homework assignment to complete in the meantime. During our time living in Portland, Oregon, we would often walk by a wish tree, where everyone was invited to tie a written wish to the tree. Borrowing from this idea, we will be creating a wish rope for our ceremony. Originally, we would have given guests 3-5 minutes during our ceremony to write wishes for us to tie to our wish rope. If you would please write a wish for us so we can include it in our virtual ceremony, we would really appreciate it! (These won't be read aloud -- it will only be for us.) Please submit your wish here no later than Wednesday, May 13: https://forms.gle/AxobNzgb5Xk9QMkJ7 If you have any trouble with the Google form, please feel free to email us your wish instead. Thanks! Sending our love to all! Tina & Billy

Dear Family and Friends, We hope you're all staying safe and healthy! A special shout-out to all of our friends and family members who are essential workers -- you are amazing! Before reading further, please click here to watch our video update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKzBrLZXfXI As we've monitored COVID-19 over recent weeks, it has become clear that even by mid-May, we won't be able to safely host our family and friends, who would be traveling from 19 states to celebrate with us. Instead, we'd like to offer you the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend our virtual ceremony in May! While we won't have any guests attending in person, we hope you can make the trip from your couch to your computer to join us! More details to follow, including a little bit of homework to help make our day special! To top it off, we look forward to planning an in-person reception next year when it's safe to get together. This will likely be in Michigan -- again, more details to come! We know that many of you have already booked travel arrangements and made plans to attend in person. We're so sorry that you won't be able to visit us in the beautiful Finger Lakes. Many airlines have modified their cancellation policies and waived change fees. If there is any way we can help you cancel travel arrangements, please let us know. If you haven't already, please let us know that you have received this message. Please stay safe, keep up the social distancing, and we look forward to connecting virtually to celebrate with you in May! Love and Virtual Hugs, Tina & Billy

Dear Family and Friends, We hope you are staying healthy! If we could put you all inside bubbles, we would -- but we are grateful for those of you who have essential work to do to keep the rest of us safe. As we have watched the events of the past week unfold, it appears doubtful that we'll be able to safely host all of you here in mid-May. We plan to announce a final decision by March 31. In the meantime, we would encourage you not to book travel or accommodations if you have not already done so. Keep up the physical distancing, but stay connected! Love, Tina & Billy

May 16, 2008 -- twelve years earlier, to the day -- is not the day we met. That afternoon, a girl from Michigan arrived at G-West outside Toledo, Ohio, for Glassmen Drum & Bugle Corps summer move-ins. (For those who don't speak drum corps, you can think of drum corps as professional marching band and move-ins as an intense three-week-long band camp.) At the check-in table, the girl spoke to a staff member about a guard scholarship she had received. Next in line, a boy from Indiana thought to himself, "She must be a pretty big deal." Finding himself intimidated, he did not introduce himself to the girl that day. Nor the next day. Or the next. Several days later, at morning stretch block, Tina and her new guard friend Candi decided not to stretch next to each other, but to go meet someone new. Tina sat down next to a suddenly-not-so-groggy trumpet player and introduced herself. Stretch block began soon after, and that might have been the end of the conversation. But that fateful morning, the drum major asked everyone to meet the person sitting next to them. Tina and Billy turned to one another and said, "Hi, again." And so the conversation resumed and continued through the morning run. A few months later, after a performance in Salem, Virgina, Tina and Billy sat under the star-filled sky. (In Tina's telling: "It was a parking lot.") Billy summoned his courage and asked Tina, "Will you, like, be my girlfriend, like, after drum corps is over?" Tina agreed, but she warned Billy, "Just so you know, guard is my life, and this relationship won't last through the winterguard season." Through two winterguard seasons, five years in a long-distance relationship, three summers spent on different continents -- all of this before FaceTime -- and soon-to-be twelve years, we defied the odds. We're so thankful for all of our friends and family who have supported us along the way, and we can't wait to celebrate with all of you!