Even though wearing a face mask is not required during the wedding, it is required to wear a face mask when entering the building such as bathrooms and when ordering a drink at the bar. These are venue policies.

Our wedding will resume on Friday, April 23, 2021. We made the decision to have the entire wedding event outside which includes the ceremony, cocktail hour and the reception for the safety of our guests and those working the wedding. As much as we would have loved to have a big wedding as originally plan, we decided to reduce the number of guest by half. We know this is the best decision under these uncertain times. We are ready to FINALLY say "I Do" in 2021. We hope you can make it!

Safety is very important during this time. Luckily for us, we live in city that took the COVID-19 pandemic very serious from the beginning. Since June 2020, the City of St. Petersburg, as well as the rest of Tampa Bay, implemented a Face Mask Order that means everyone, including employees of public places, are required to wear face mask. We will have disposable face mask, mini hand sanitizers for each guest and color coordinated wristband that indicated the level of comfort you would like to be greeted by others. We have the WHOLE garden to ourselves which allows us to have plenty of room for social distancing all night long. IMPORTANT REQUEST: We ask if you can self-isolate from any gatherings at least TWO weeks before the wedding. UPDATE: As of 12/14/2020, the COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in the Tampa Bay area. We will continue to have our safety protocol.

It was February 13, 2015. We were out in Georgetown, DC celebrating a mutual friend's birthday in 2015. After a long night of dancing, we had our first date two days later which ended with a couple of feet of snow with more snow falling on the second date later that week. In January 2016, after being trapped home by the snow for a month, we joked about moving to a warmer weather area. This joke soon became a research project to find a place that we can see ourselves live in. Years before we met, we had lived in tropical areas throughout college and after college which came to no surprise when we decided we were moving to Florida. We finally moved to St. Petersburg in July 2017 though Sean had to return to DC to finish his job, leaving Karina to stand alone against Hurricane Irma. A month before Karina's grad school graduation in Colorado, Sean decided he was going to propose that day surrounded by her family. On June 9, 2018, Karina graduated with her master's degree and received the best graduation gift... a wedding proposal. Sean proposed on Mt. Evan in front of her mom and siblings. Since the proposal, we bought a house, added new pets to our home, met wonderful friends, and postponed a wedding due to the Coronavirus. Needless to say, we are ready for 2021!