...until COVID-19 hit Europe and North America. Our original plans would have brought friends and family around the world over to this historic city on 25 July 2020. Clearly, those plans have gone swimmingly for us thus far. London was home for Daniel twice over the past several years - first in 2016 while on extended business assignment, then again between 2017 and 2018 while attending graduate school. While there, Daniel befriended several (hundred) amazing Londoners through the communities at Saint Helen's Bishopsgate and Crossway Stratford, many who have become lifelong friends. Katie has also befriended many of them in the years since, and London remains the one city in the world where both of us dream of purchasing a home and settling down, if the Lord should allow. We hope to be able to revive those plans and throw a grand, celebratory party there again with many of you sometime within the next 12 months.

Despite a number of false starts since folding Plan A, we are exceedingly happy to proceed with a modified celebration. Though, of course, we will be unable to celebrate this particular occasion in person with everyone, we hope that you will be able to participate in any number of ways described throughout this site, including virtually for the ceremony (via live-stream) and in our post-dinner reception party (for our local DC friends and neighbors). We will hold an intimate, hyper-local ceremony with 15 friends and family members in Great Falls, VA. We will be in the front garden of a private residence near the falls, which belongs to two dear friends who retired here after 30 years in the Navy. While Daniel was an undergraduate student at Tufts University (and a service member in training himself), they welcomed him into their home for two summers. We are thrilled to be able to bring our special day to them, who because of mobility and health struggles would have been unable to travel or join any non-local wedding celebration. Though the public health crisis nixed our original plans, it also enabled us this even more sentimental, unique opportunity.

Please join us virtually between 2:00PM and 3:00PM for the ceremony out in Great Falls, VA, then in person in Northeast DC betwen 7:30PM and 9:00PM for a casual post-dinner neighborhood party. All local friends and neighbors welcome - please remember to RSVP (on the "RSVP" tab on this site) for both.

We are absolutely gutted not to be able to share this day with you in person. If you are reading this page, we were precisely 24 hours from sending you an invitation for our London-based wedding later this summer. Please do consider joining us instead via live-stream from 2:00PM to 3:00PM, for the ceremony portion of the day. You must RSVP (under the "RSVP" tab on this site) to receive a link to the event. Thank you!

Many of you will know that both of us are committed Christians. To that end, we will be celebrating a distinctly Christian wedding. We will celebrate the gift that marriage is - one that comes from God himself and meant to reflect an even greater love, namely the love that God showers upon his people. We believe that marriage is not an end itself, but a means to an end - a means through which two sinful, horrendously imperfect individuals can nonetheless display for each other the love, care, and support that God yearns to show every individual in the world. This wedding celebration will be a religious act of worship - but do not allow those big words to deter you from joining in with us. Whatever your background, or your current status with God and religion, we consider you among our nearest, dearest friends and family. If you are a fellow Christian, we look forward to spending an intimate time together that day in worship, even if only virtually.

Illinois-born and raised. Among corn fields, on tractors, etc.. Washington, DC since 2018 by way of Chicago,, IL and San Antonio, TX. Professional wedding photographer and marketing manager in the health and wellness industry. Older twin sister (Illinois) and brother (Texas). Two younger brothers (Maryland and New Hampshire...until the Navy says otherwise). Wines - red, sparking, and rose, in that order. Obsessive bargain hunter shopper gatherer. Looks sweet but shows no mercy with anyone at cornhole. Cafe lattes. Surpasses Daniel in geeking out at maps. Forty-six out of fifty states, including Hawaii and North Dakota. A special prize to anyone who can guess the missing four correctly before the day of the wedding.

What you know me by depends what country you are from. Brits are too proper to abbreviate names. Bastardized short-form names roll off Americans' tongues. Koreans cannot pronounce names correctly at all. There, I offended you all. Proudly bi-cultural Korean-American. Born and raised in New Jersey. Two parents who emigrated to the States in the early eighties for graduate school and have remained ever since. One younger brother (still based in New Jersey). Undergraduate years in Boston (go Jumbos!). Most of the past ten years since in Washington, DC (against my will, if you want me to be honest, with at least another four in the pipes if not more). Stints abroad in London. Currently impostering at a management consultancy and somehow getting by. Will begin post-graduate studies in nothing useful sometime in 2021 (international politics, if you must know). Amateur bass guitarist and growing classical guitarist. Love learning new languages. Love teaching the bible. Lifelong Denver Broncos fan (dad's first year in the States was in Colorado in 1983 - John Elway's rookie year) and equally enthusiastic Arsenal FC fan (before they got good, thank you very much).

Katie had just moved to DC months earlier - her first time on the East Coast, after time in rural Illinois and quasi-rural Texas. Daniel had just returned to DC after a year of graduate school in the UK. Both joined the church community at Grace DC, and joined the entire church on a weekend in West Virginia in early November 2018. They met on the playing field, on an intense (er...friendly) game of...well, actually, we still don't quite understand what game we were playing that afternoon. It was an amazing combination of American football, dodgeball, and basketball. Katie's ferocious competitiveness came out that day...and caught Daniel's eye. Daniel asked Katie out a month later, and by Christmas became a couple.

The original proposal should have happened the day after Valentines' Day 2020 (on Saturday 15 February). But...the ring was stuck across the ocean at the time in Hong Kong. Daniel had to think fast and postpone the original proposal plan. One week later, he had it figured out, and took Katie for a stroll...in the frigid winter temps along the Hudson River. Overlooking the NYC skyline and the George Washington Bridge, he got down on one knee and said all sorts of nice things which neither of us can actually remember. Oh, and he still claims that she never said "yes".