Husband + wife wedding photography and videography team serving Hampton Roads, DC and beyond 💕
Virginia Beach, VA
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Our story began when I was traveling to Italy with my sister to attend her wedding. We had originally booked our plane tickets for 2 weeks earlier but had to reschedule due to an appointment she had in Rome. As we were at our departure gate in Rome, we ran into an old schoolmate which we hadn’t seen since elementary school. If this wasn’t a coincidence already, he was traveling to the same island that we were and he told us that my former music teacher would be there to pick him up. Of course I was eager to say hello to my old teacher so we met up as soon as we landed. As it turns out, he was having car trouble that day so his friend Angelo was there to give them a ride.
Our first interaction was brief, we politely shook hands and exchanged smiles. If you had told me then that he would be the man that I was going to marry, I would have said two things: 1. You are crazy and 2. I really should have reconsidered this outfit. No joke guys, my exact thought when I got ready that morning was “Well, I might as well dress for comfort – who do I have to impress?”… Yet Angelo still swears that I looked beautiful that day. The best word that I can use to describe our meeting is serendipity. What are the chances that we would have to reschedule our plane tickets, that my schoolmate would be on our same flight or that my teacher would be having car trouble? It was extremely unlikely that our paths would ever cross and yet they did.
I didn’t think that we would ever meet again after that so you can imagine my surprise when a few days later, my friend from earlier in the story invited me to go boating with them – Angelo being the “captain”. Did I mention that neither of us spoke a lick of each other’s languages at the time? We didn’t say much to each other that day; in fact, our first real interaction was when he pulled me off the boat and into the water (which I guess is a guy’s way of saying that they like you?). Our first ever conversation was actually about photography. Using only the words “Canon” and “Pentax”, we had what I am pretty sure was our first argument about which was superior (obviously Canon). After that, it was settled, we had to see each other again for a photography date.
With the help of Google translate and a whole lot of pantomiming, we spent the summer getting to know each other and unexpectedly falling in love. It is truly a beautiful thing when you meet someone that shares your passions. We both felt like we had found something that we didn’t even know we were looking for; so when it came time for me to return to America, it was devastating. All of my long-distance couples out there know that it is not an easy journey but we were determined to make it work. For the next couple of months, we spent all of our free time on Skype and when Angelo told me that he was coming to visit in October, I was so excited I couldn’t sleep!
