Our Story

Anthony and I met in the Honors hall in the UC Riverside dorms (Fun Fact: My parents also met each other in that exact building, just on the other side). Right from the get go we were eating, living, studying and attending classes with each other. We became friends, and eventually in February 2010 he asked me to be his girlfriend.

The weekend we got together. We look so little!!

We have had our ups and downs just like anyone else, but mostly ups. I am the generally calm and mellow one and Anthony is the exciting and adventurous one and we just kind of complete each other. It's a beautiful partnership.

We have a lot of fun together!

In December 2012 Anthony graduated from UCR (with highest honors!!) with his BA in Anthropology. I followed him soon after in March 2013 with my BA in Ancient History. In June 2013 we got to walk in the same graduation ceremony.

On the first weekend of September 2013, Anthony took me to the beach at night and asked me to marry him. I promptly said, "Well Duh!!"

The first picture after we got engaged

Within two weeks we had both miraculously been offered jobs in my hometown and had found an apartment and things just magically fell into place. 

In May 2014, after completing a premarital class there, Anthony and I went to our church asking for some advice on how to incorporate God into our wedding and we ended up having an impromptu religious wedding ceremony right on the spot! It was really important to us that we included God in our wedding since He will play such a big part in our marriage. So technically we are "church married". Our church currently recognizes us as being married but we still need to make it legal with the state.

We have been incredibly blessed in our life together so far and we are so grateful for everything that we have been able to achieve together. We are incredibly excited for September and to have all of our closest friends and family with us to celebrate this next step in our lives together.