We're so excited to celebrate with you!

How we met isn't all that crazy...it was online. What was crazy was that we hadn't already met! Connor played tennis at Sonoma State University and I was on the soccer team. How did we not cross paths already? Or maybe we did. Perhaps I was on my way to class one day, walking by the tennis courts where Connor was hitting. Or, maybe, we were at one of the same athlete socials. But it doesn't matter, what does is that we both swiped right. Connor, an adventurously wild, nonadherent, and often quiet surfer boy from SoCal. Marissa, a boisterous, goofy, lover of literature from the Bay Area. What a match God had planned. So we dated throughout our remaining time at SSU. We graduated and I moved back to the Bay, specifically Hayward. Connor, missing his family and the beach, made the selfless decision to stay in Northern California for little ol' me. Fast forward and thanks to my amazing community, I was able to make it back to Sonoma County, where Connor was living. A few months in and then we found ourselves in a global pandemic. We decided to shelter in place together. Then one day, about a month into Covid, we looked at each other and decided, "why don't we do this forever?" So on April 23, 2020, we went to the courthouse and said “I do.” We had to stand outside, it was ordained over a cell phone, and our wedding certificate slipped under the door. Now we can’t wait to say those words in front of all our loved ones.