Our love story was featured in the October 2024 issue of 614 Magazine. Here’s what we shared (with stunning photos by our photographer, Amy Ann Photography).
How we met
We met on Bumble on a crisp, fall day in 2017 and spent our first date perched in the giant peacock chairs at The Bottle Shop. (The chairs may be gone, but we still love the Bottle Shop.) We decided to ‘just be friends’ and moved in as roommates in the summer of 2018. We fell in love and started dating over cocktails and homemade pizza shared in our picturesque back patio in German Village.
Ernie knew he wanted to propose to me the moment I rescued our first cat, Susu, from the hood of a car. I knew I wanted to marry Ernie after spending many a cozy Saturday morning together, reading and baking. Ernie proposed in a romantic forest in the central Loire Valley during the month we spent wandering throughout France in 2022.
We tied the knot on June 1st, 2024 in a stunning wedding at Franklin Park’s Palm House surrounded by our family and friends. We built our ceremony around custom vows that reflected our deep love, partnership, and respect for each other. We hand-wrote our vows in a small, hand-bound book decorated with a hummingbird on the cover. After the ceremony, our guests swept onto the terrace (just missing the coming rainstorm) for custom cocktails, an aperol spritz for him, a saturn for me. For our first dance, we chose to dance to Mitski’s “My Love is Mine All Mine”.
Post-wedding, when we’re not baking sourdough bread or making a multi-course dinner for guests, you can find us cuddling our cats, strolling around Schiller Park, doing yoga at our local yoga studio, or perusing seasonal produce at the German Village farmers market.
Our vendors
Wedding planning is so stressful, and I’m not interested in gatekeeping. These were all our amazing vendors from our wedding. We vetted each and every one of them, and all are welcoming and accepting of LGBTQ+ couples and families. (A priority for me, as the daughter of two moms.)
Photographer: Amy Ann Photo
Planner: STR Events (Jennifer Drew)
Florist: Wild Prairie Flower Farm
Caterer: Creative Cuisine (Jayne)
Bakery: Selection of desserts from Pistacia Vera
Attire: Ernie wore a custom suit from Indochino, Sarah wore a dress by Alexandra Greco from Lovely Bride Cincinnati
Venue: The Palm House at Franklin Park Conservatory
Jeweler: Rings were made + designed by Aran Galligan of Aide-Mémoire Jewelry in Seattle.
Makeup and Hair: Columbus Wedding Makeup and Hair
