Kirsten first reached out to me in September. She contacted me a bit after our move from State College to Bridgeville, and asked if we would be willing to travel to Butler, PA (an hour from Bridgeville)! It would be our first wedding in the new area!! As we emailed back and forth, I began REALLY hoping that they would book us, not because we were close to Butler, but because of how friendly Kirsten came across in her emails! She was always offering to answer any questions and enthusiastic to fill our our questionnaires. Luckily for us, they invited us to celebrate with them! We even got a save the date!! In each email, I could tell how joyful and excited these two were for this day. Before I
Thanksgiving is one of two times a year that our mom’s siblings, their spouses, and children come together! With a minimum of 50 people place settings around the dinner table, it also ends up being the “baptism by fire” “sink or swim” “first time meeting the family” for significant others! A few years ago, Nikki swam! Within the first hour of her coming in our grandmother’s house of organized chaos, she was talking to the younger cousins about unicorn fashion, adulting with the older cousins, and getting to know the aunts and uncles – mind you, Sean, our cousin, was catching up with family elsewhere. When Sean proposed we lovingly reminded him that she was way out of his league, and we could
