Michael and Lauren

05/21/2016

Michael and I met our sophomore year of college in Maryland. We started dating by the end of the school year. Each summer we went back to our home states- Maryland and New Jersey and dated long distance for the next 8 years. When Michael bought a house in New Jersey, I moved a few years after. Michael proposed to me in Ocean City, Maryland in an arcade where I spent my summers with family. A year later we were married in my hometown of Baltimore, in my home parish, Our Lady of Good Counsel. Our reception followed at the American Visionary Art Musuem. We got married on the same day as Preakness (horse race part of the Triple Crown). We dined on Maryland-themed foods, drank Black Eyed Susan's and finished the night with cupcakes from my favorite bakery. We danced the night away with our close family and friends. It was absolutely The. Best. Day. Ever.