New York Botanical Garden Stone Mill fall wedding

Another beautiful NYBG Stone Mill autumn wedding with a couple share love towards nature!

How did you meet each other?

We met on two different dating apps! Originally, we started messaging on Hinge, but the conversation dropped off because he didn’t know how to ask her out 🙂 He saw her profile on OkCupid later and decided to give it another shot. She thought this was incredibly charming, and this time he asked her out right away. We had our first date that week.

How did you get engaged?

Whenever she would ask him when he was going to propose to her, he would say, “I’ve just gotta get you to the red ‘X’.” After going to the cherry blossom festival at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, they had plans to meet up with friends at a bar in Gowanus (a ruse to get her to the red ‘X’). On the walk over, he stopped her at the spot where they had their first kiss. Nick, one of his groomsmen, had gone to the spot earlier that day and drew a red ‘X’. While she stood on the red X, he got down on one knee and honestly, she can’t remember a thing he said because her brain was yelling “IT’S HAPPENING. IT’S HAPPENING. THANK GOD YOU PAINTED YOUR NAILS THIS MORNING.” They went to the bar where they had their first date, and while they were there, their friends decorated their apartment with string lights, balloons, champagne, and a dapper costume for their dog, Sam.

What are your favorite things to do together?

Spend time with our pets, cook (and eat!), listen to music (looking forward to live shows again), go hiking, canoeing, archery, chess, explore new restaurants and breweries, visit New Orleans

What do you love most about each other?

Bride: I love his capacity for joy. He makes such an effort to bring happiness, magic, and more than a little whimsy to my day, every day, and it’s so thoughtful and romantic. I also love his range of laughs, from his composed ‘work chuckle’ to his uninhibited, deep-from-the-belly guffaw.

Groom: She has a mischievous troublemaker smile that I’m pretty sure would convince anyone to do anything.I love her dedication to adding happiness to the lives of those around her, specifically that she will do just about anything to make me laugh. She is strong and principled. She sings goofy little songs about our pets. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of so many things, I love asking her questions that I already know the answer to just so she can tell me about middle earth or something like that. And she puts up with me and all of my buffoonery.