
1/26/19 was our first date. Javi took me to Bandera on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago. Romantic low lighting, jazz playing, candles burning, snow falling, and sparks flying!

3/24/19 (Javi’s birthday) The night he said, "Rachel, I am going to wed you."

8/2019, South Carolina for Javi’s CHBOLC graduation!
A candid.

Our first military ball!

February 2020, circa COVID-19, Capitol Hill, DC.
Javi BUILT me a wine rack.

"People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love." — Dr. Seuss

A candid 💜 2020

Joy (Matron of Honor) and Dan Leffingwell’s wedding reception in Sparta, WI! September 2020.

First Nationals game! Rachel is rooting for the home team, and then there’s Javi flying the W.
June 2021

First things first when we stepped off the plane, In & Out!

Very telling, especially when seeing that hours before our engagement!

My family hosted the most wonderful bridal shower for us! I do BBQ was a BLAST!

In this moment we never felt more adult.

Javi knows one of my love languages is wine. So, to celebrate the beginning of 2022 he took me to a winery in the heart of Virginia’s wine country near Charlottesville!

Finally, the last member of our mini family, Theo 💜

My best buddy