Well here we are... the third attempt at celebrating our wedding.

After initially postponing our Jamaica wedding to January 2021, the nurse in me realized that was an awful idea. Unfortunately, the coronavirus is probably only going to get worse as we hit the winter months again.

We decided to cancel our destination plans entirely and on June 6, 2020 we had a "minimony" (not quite an elopement but not a full ceremony) and officially were married. Despite being far different than planned, it was incredibly special and truly quite perfect. Our immediate family got to stand by our sides as dozens of other friends and family watched from Zoom. Life came full circle that day as we had the plan B ceremony at the same lakefront spot that served as Eric's plan B proposal!

Even though we're legally married now, we didn't want to miss getting to celebrate with all our loved ones. Thus, we planned our newly scheduled post-party on our one year anniversary! We hope the world will be in a better state of health by then, allowing us to comfortably gather and get our groove on!

Cheers!,

The New Mr. and Mrs. Eric Brennan <3

In light of COVID-19, we were forced to make the difficult decision to postpone our wedding festivities.

We know the resorts may reopen and the planes may fly, but we didn't want to put any friends and family in the uncomfortable place of choosing between their safety and comfort, and our celebration. Come the New Year of 2021, we hope the world will be a much better, healthier state and we will all once again be able to shake hands, hug, dance, and just be together.

Stay home, stay safe, stay positive.

With all the love in the world,

Haley and Eric

On October 19th, we celebrated my 24th birthday and I was sent to bed with the message that we had to wake up at 5am the next day for a surprise. So, to my dismay, we woke up at 5am on October 20th and got dressed for some unknown surprise. Not 30 minutes later, Eric got the news that inclement weather was going to cancel our plans.

So, a frantic Eric and a now sleepily confused Haley, stayed up anyway as he explained to me that we were supposed to have a private hot air balloon ride that morning but the winds were too strong. He promised we'd find something fun to do that day instead.

Later that day, the wind and clouds finally broke and fate would have it that the sun shined through a cotton candy sky. Eric took me to dinner at a little lake front restaurant called North Harbor Club and miraculously it was nice enough to sit outside. As our dinner wound down, Eric recommended we go for a walk on the docks. Naturally, I couldn't just relax and agree and instead argued that we couldn't leave the table before paying! He persisted and we took our walk as the sun was beginning to set.

I couldn't tell you what happened after that because before I could even process it, Eric was looking me in my tearing up eyes telling me he knew I was the one from the very beginning and was down on one knee asking me to marry him. I nodded like a bobblehead for way too long before saying the easiest yes! He then tried to put the ring on the wrong finger and blames the tears for it. But that beautiful moment was more than I ever could've dreamed of and fit us and our love perfectly.

The honest but not so public story is that we met on Match.com. The initial cyberspace encounter didn't result in much as I played hard to get for nearly 6 months and Eric respectfully persisted in getting me to go on a date. I finally said yes in early May 2018 and sent Eric speeding across the Verrazzano Bridge to make it on time for a very last minute date.

That wonderful summery night, as a super nervous Eric and a super sunburned Haley, our lives changed forever. We started the night at Fornino, a little pizza spot in Brooklyn Bridge Park and after closing the restaurant over 4 hours later, we moved up the block to O'Keefe's Pub so we didn't have to say goodbye just yet. A week later we had our second date, realized the first date going so incredibly well wasn't just a fluke, and saw each other nearly every day after that.

A month later we spent our first weekend away together in Atlantic City, dancing the night away on the beach, where Eric formally asked me to be his girlfriend. Truth be told, I already knew I wanted to be his wife.

Fast forward, well, a few months, and we picked up our lives in New York to start a new journey and chapter together in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was the easiest and best decision we've made to date.