We met at Mark's 40th birthday party. Mark is Barbi's cousin and one of Vinny's good friends. Vinny sat down a few chairs away and made an off-color joke which Barbi and her cousin Jacqueline laughed at and immediately he knew Barbi was a cool girl that he wanted to talk to more. He asked Mark for her number prior to leaving the party but Barbi made the first move messaging him on FB. We started talking the next day and he won Barbi over with his cockiness, candor and wit and we went on our first date a week later at the Thayer Hotel in West Point. (Barbi broke her golden rule of not making plans on a Sunday because she felt he was worth it.) Vinny was smitten with Barbi from the beginning with how kind she is and incredibly thankful for how well she always treated him. We both feel like we met each other at the perfect time in our lives, when we were really ready to love and be loved in the way that we both needed. The last couple years have been a blast and just the beginning of many more years together!