Due to COVID-19, we're postponing our wedding until September 13, 2020. Danielle and Ben will still be getting married on May 23 in a private ceremony. We are so excited to celebrate with you in September! Please update your RSVP here by August 1st. Thank you for understanding.
Danielle played club volleyball with Ben's twin sister Brianna, during those months Brie would tease her about dating her brother, Ben. Danielle was not very interested. Months later Danielle had a shoot with Ben's older brother Jake. After the shoot Jake went home and told Ben that he met someone that he thinks would be perfect for him, Ben was not very interested. A few months after that Danielle posted a picture on Instagram about her recent trip to Haiti, little did she know that Ben was leaving to go to Haiti just days later! He commented on the picture and that sparked a conversation between the two. After Ben got back from Haiti the two decided to meet up to talk about Haiti but they were both wanting Brie to come with them so it wouldn't be awkward since they had never actually met in person. As Danielle was driving to meet up with the twins she received a phone call from Brie telling her that she wasn't able to come with them anymore. So it ended up just being the two of them hiking at Chickies Rock and the two have been inseparable since.
Danielle and Ben had their friends Emily and Justin come visit them in Philadelphia and Danielle had planned fun places to take them all day. Little did she know that Emily, Justin and Ben were all keeping a secret from her about how the day would end. Ben suggested going to a rooftop park in Philadelphia called Cira Green and Danielle was SO excited to take them there! After dinner the four of them made their way over to Cira Green to enjoy the sunset and take some pictures. Soon after they arrived Danielle started taking pictures of Emily and Justin while Ben was behind her trying to get the ring out of his sunglasses case that he had been carrying around all day (it was cloudy). Then they switched and Emily began taking pictures of Ben and Danielle. After a few pictures Ben kept on pointing things out to Danielle that would make her turn around, but being focused on getting good pictures it did not distract her. Eventually Emily posed them in a way that would have Danielle turned the way Ben needed her to be, then Ben told her to look down and in his hands he held the ring that she had picked out before she even met Ben (and had sold out nine months prior! Benjamin has been holding onto this ring since January)!! She immediately started crying and couldn't believe this was really happening! Thankfully it wasn't a dream! Ben and Danielle could not be more excited to start their lives together!