December, 2022

In 2004, we were just two young whipper-snappers, finding our place and our selves in a little beach town named Santa Cruz. Susannah had traveled south, from Washington and Rob west, from Colorado, ultimately to cross paths one sunny, late-summer afternoon in the Porter Quad. It was our first real one-on-one interaction, and it has stuck in both our minds, because there must have been a little magic in that moment, knowing now that, 10 years later, we’d be getting married.

Home Is Where The Heart Is

“Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Bee (Susannah’s mom) sometimes talks about the idea of a person’s primal landscape. That place that has written itself on your soul…

For Rob, that place is Telluride…

Where he grew up and his family built their home. He and Susannah return every summer to that small mountain town to celebrate some of their favorite things – good movies, fresh air, and old friends. And in 2013, Telluride is where Rob chose to ask Susannah to be his wife.

For Susannah, it’s the Skagit Valley…

She forged some of her deepest friendships on that land. Countless afternoons were spent in the field behind her childhood home being, in her imagination, a veterinarian, a pioneer, a cowgirl, an actress… pretty much any character you can imagine. This is the field where she, in reality, will celebrate her marriage. To be able to share that moment, in that place, with all of her loved ones… amazing.

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