Our Story
Who we are...
Jon
Jon was born and raised in Bellingham, MA. After graduating high school in 1996, Jon headed to the city to attend Newbury College where he majored in Computer Science. This past May he graduated from BU with his Masters in Computer Science. Jon currently works as a Corporate IT Manager AKA ... "IT Guy".
When not planning the wedding, Jon can be found ... surfing the internet, playing with ditto, playing video games, watching sports, talking about sports with his friends, thinking about sports ... oh and hanging around with his beautiful soon to be wife.
Who we are...
Danielle
Danielle was born in Boston and moved around quite a bit until her family moved to Natick, MA. Danielle was raised in Natick. She graduated from Natick High in 2001. She then went on to attend Framingham State College to earn a degree in Graphic Design in 2006. Currently she works as a Graphic Designer.
When not planning the wedding, Danielle can be found ... surfing the internet, playing with ditto, crafting, reading, at the gym, talking with friends ... oh and hanging around with her handsome soon to be husband.
How we met
In Brief:
Jon and Danielle met on the internet. Yes, that’s right. The very same internet that you are looking at right now!
We started dating in 2000, and got engaged in 2006. Here are our relationship statistics since then:
Homes shared: 5
Homes owned: 2
Rooms painted: 3 (but felt like 100)
Trips to the hospital: 3
Cars owned: 8
Pets adopted: 1 dog
How we met
The Long Version:
We met over the Internet. There. We admit it. Now stop snickering.
During the early spring of 2000, we bumped into one another in an AOL chat room. It was clear then that we shared quite a few interests, and before long we were chatting on a nightly basis. We chatted online for about a week before taking the next step and exchanged phone numbers.
Another week on the phone and we planned their first real date: dinner at Uno's Bar and Grille and a movie. Needless to say... things went pretty well. And as they say: "The rest is history!"
Our Perfect Engagement
From Danielle's perspective...
(A little background) ...
Every Columbus day we have gone pumpkin picking and carved our pumpkins together.
Last October was no different ... EXCEPT he wanted to do a pumpkin carving contest between him and I. It didn't really seem like a fair contest for him since I went to art school and he didn't, but I gladly accepted the competition. My sister and my parents were set to be the judges. And after we were done, we were going to bring our pumpkins over to my sister's house to be judged and have dinner ... nothing out of the usual because we do this every Sunday ... minus the pumpkins.
He was very secretive the whole time about what he was carving and wouldn't let me see his pumpkin. When we were both done, we put towels over them for the revealing. I showed mine first, a scream face from my favorite Munch painting.
Then his pumpkin - "Will you marry me?" carved into the pumpkin and the ring next to it.
Needless to say ... he won the contest. People keep asking, if my scream pumpkin
was my reaction. :)
