Rehearsal Dinner

The Barn at Powder Major's Farm

Venue Rehearsal

Backyard BBQ at John & Haley's

Wedding Ceremony & Reception

Ceremony

Photos & Cocktail Hour

Dinner

Reception and Celebrations

Send-off and Depart Venue

Afterparty

Fall

Our Wedding

Our Story

Like so many other great stories, the tale of Haley & John began with two people being in the right place at the right time and, when in doubt, following their hearts. In other words: they matched on the dating app, Bumble.

There were two key parts of Haley's profile that left John immediately intrigued: her bio introducing her as "too normal for the weirdos and too weird for the normies" and a photo of her brandishing a moose skull she found out in the woods. Clearly, this was a woman he wanted to know.

They started chatting and hit it off, but if you know the couple, their courtship was anything but direct and decisive. After a week or two of getting to know each other virtually, there was a catalyzing moment where John was leaving work and passed Haley sitting at a nearby cafe, resulting a fleeting moment of mutual recognition that likely resembled this to passers-by:

The chance passing assured both that the other was not, in fact, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfishing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">catfish</a>, and that this dream-person was a living, breathing human who was exactly the person they portrayed themselves to be. Time has muddled who sent the "Did I just see you downtown?" message to the other, but the mutual excitement spurred the two into scheduling a date in the coming days.

The two had their first date in the humble garage-turned-brewery of Liar's Bench Beer Co. in the West End of Portsmouth. Within moments of entering the crowded bar, John spied Haley from across the room and was overwhelmed with a sense of "There she is - that's her". Though the significance behind the profound recognition of a near-stranger escaped John in the moment, he would later come to realize that the familiarity he felt in that moment was a subtle hint that he just met the woman he would go on to marry. After exchanging numbers in the parking lot, John and Haley agreed that they would love to go on another date and hoped to see each other again soon. What followed moments later was likely not what Haley had in mind: after a few turns, she noticed a car that was seemingly following her home. Fortunately, the presumptive stalker continued on down the road after Haley turned onto her street...

It was during their second date that Haley and John continued to learn all the things they had in common, such as owning the same car (albeit in different colors) and living with their parents in general area. After their brief second date, it was John's turn to be weirded out, noticing that a familiar car seemed to be following him home at every turn. Upon arriving home, John called Haley and the two shared a laugh upon realizing just how incredibly close they had lived to each other for years without ever crossing paths. Mutually acknowledging that their dinner together was too short, the two then hopped back in their matching cars and drove a few more minutes to the beach, talking and laughing for hours more.

As late summer gave way to fall, the courtship of Haley and John continued. With Halloween approaching, the two made plans to hit the town together and although Haley and friends had already settled on a group costume (the aliens from Toy Story), John was still without and time was running short. What started as a passing joke quickly became an 11th-hour stroke of inspiration: The CLAAAW! Haley's friend-group costume thus morphed into a couple's costume, John making it abundantly clear throughout the night just who he had picked out of the crowd.

The weeks that followed were much of the same: finding time in their busy schedules to see and learn more about each other, chasing the excitement and comfort they felt in each other. The culmination of this chapter was a road trip to Haley's <a href="https://translate.google.com/?sl=pl&amp;tl=en&amp;text=Marchewka&amp;op=translate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carrot Cove</a> in Maine, a plot of land she had purchased a year or two prior and the site of the moose skull photo that started it all. It was during that trip when the two acknowledged something special was forming and that they were officially a couple. As if Haley needed any further reassurance, her beloved Mila was in full approval of this new dog-dad:

The weeks turned into months and the months gradually became the first of several years together. John and Haley moved in together, introducing Mila to Nox &amp; Luna (John's cats) and happily settling in to their first apartment together. During that time, John and Haley formed many new traditions together, including the practice of taking trips to places that held special meaning to one or the other in the years before they met: John showing Haley around his old haunts in Burlington for her birthday and Haley doing the same for John in Boston on his. After months of planning, the two decided to combine John's birthday-trip with a celebration of their second anniversary of being a couple by heading west and revisiting the Moab desert, where Haley spent countless nights under the stars as a wilderness therapy counselor. With the adventure planning underway, John began planning the start to another adventure...

Photos

**Astrological Sign: Sagittarius**
**Birth Order: Younger Sib, 2/2**
**Hidden Talent: Knowing names and remembering them**
**Least Favorite Music Genre/Artist: Country, especially Cowboy Carter**
**Favorite Soup: Gnocchi Soup**
**Celebrity Doppelgänger: Amy Schumer**
**Spirit Animal: Sloth**

Åse

**Astrological Sign: Virgo**                                               

**Birth Order: Oldest (twin younger brothers)**               

**Hidden Talent: Loon calls**

**Least Favorite Music Genre/Artist: Taylor Swift**

**Favorite Soup: Corn Chowdah**

**Celebrity Doppelgänger: Idk a lot of people tell me I look like some chick from the Bachelorette**

**Spirit Animal: Rabbit**

Callie

**Astrological Sign: Aries**

**Birth Order: Daughter Superior**

**Hidden Talent: Accents, or forgetting someone's name 3 seconds after they tell me and then trying to covertly get them to tell me their name again**

**Least Favorite Music Genre/Artist: Stadium Country**

**Favorite Soup: Italian Wedding Soup**

**Celebrity Doppelgänger: Miss Piggy from The Muppet Christmas Carol on a good day**

**Spirit Animal: Wolf**

Erin

**Astrological Sign: Gemini**

**Birth Order: First born**

**Hidden Talent: Turning any leftovers into amazing nachos**

**Least Favorite Music Genre/Artist: Fetty Wap**

**Favorite Soup: French Onion, but it needs to be in the bowl with the handle and have melted cheese on top**

**Celebrity Doppelgänger: Dobby**

**Spirit Animal: Otter**

Alyssa

**Astrological Sign: Pisces**
**Birth Order: 2/2 or 5/5 but the baby either way**
**Hidden Talent: Dog training**
**Least Favorite Music Genre/Artist: All the songs my third-graders request that mess up my algorithm**
**Favorite Soup: NO SOUP FOR YOU!**
**Celebrity Doppelgänger: Uncle Eddie (Who doesn't love a dickie?)**
**Spirit Animal: Osprey**

Summer

**Astrological Sign: Aquarius**

**Birth Order: Only child on one side, Oldest on the other**

**Hidden Talent: Foosball**

**Least Favorite Music Genre/Artist: Country, and the kind of metal where it's just loud noises and men yelling**

**Favorite Soup: Chicken Noodle, with crusty bread for dipping**

**Celebrity Doppelgänger: I feel like I don't have one...?**

**Spirit Animal: Crow**

Emily

**Astrological Sign: Sun - Scorpio/Libra cusp, Moon - Aries, Rising - Aquarius**

**Birth Order: Sole survivor**

**Hidden Talent: I can open doors with my toes**

**Least Favorite Music Genre/Artist: Lamp Chop**

**Favorite Soup: I really have a sick clam chowder problem**

**Celebrity Doppelgänger: I've been told Shailene Woodley. I endorse Daria.**

**Spirit Animal: Otter**

Danielle

**Astrological Sign: Sagittarius (But actually doesn't matter cause they're made up and the Earth's wobble makes chart signs developed 2000 years ago off by exactly 1/12 of the night sky, i.e. 1 full sign. Yes, that means if I were born a Roman I would be a Scorpio).**

**Birth Order: Youngest of 5**

**Hidden Talent: Sleep farts that replicate the sounds of a jazz trumpeter**

**Least Favorite Music Genre/Artist: Ska**

**Favorite Soup: Hungarian Mushroom**

**Celebrity Doppelgänger: Keanjew Reeves**

**Spirit Animal: Sea Urchin (spiky on the outside, soft on the inside, salty all over)**

**Astrological Sign: Virgo**

**Birth Order: Youngest (Haley's lil' bro)**

**Hidden Talent: Why tf would I tell you, it's hidden (but I can solve a Rubik's Cube)**

**Least Favorite Music Genre/Artist: Ska (or if that will cause the groom to kick me out, then go with Drake)**

**Favorite Soup: Butternut Squash**

**Celebrity Doppelgänger: **

**Spirit Animal: **

Brady

[-- How They Met John --]
With hardly a year's age difference between them, John can't remember a time when he didn't know his "little" brother.

[-- What They're Known For --]
An infectious laugh and physically overshadowing his "big" brother since middle school.

[-- Hidden Talent --]
Instantly naming what Disney movie came out in a given year.


Dan Desmond

[--How They Met John--]
Ski Club and Lacrosse at Bishop Guertin High School

[--What They're Known For--]
A cool-headed engineer-turned-farmer with a penchant for taking the road less traveled and always on the lookout for creative solutions.

[-- Hidden Talent --]
Former bassist and founding member of the acclaimed ska band, Skananigans!

Mike Noel

[-- How They Met John --]
Ski Club and Lacrosse at Bishop Guertin High School

[-- What They're Known For --]
Being equally enigmatic and down-to-earth; is he chilling at home or sampling the world's rarest coffee in Malaysia? Who knows...

[-- Hidden Talent --]
Former saxophone player of the acclaimed ska band, Skananigans!



Mike Schultz

[-- How They Met John --]
Awkward high school freshmen with a mutual appreciation for eclectic music.

[-- What They're Known For --]
The funniest deadpan comedian you'll ever meet.

[-- Hidden Talent --]
Picking up someone else's instrument and playing it just as well, if not better, than the owner.



Zack Roberts

[-- How They Met John --]
A fellow BG alum with an affinity for music of the heavier variety.

[-- What They're Known For --]
Fast cars, highly technical metal, and Top Secret stuff for work.

[-- Hidden Talent --]
A majestic afro that appears with approximately 1/8 the frequency of Halley's Comet.



Dan Balogh

[-- How They Met John --]
Yet another BG alum...see a trend?

[-- What They're Known For --]
A kind and mild-mannered norseman whose friendly demeanor belies the humorous party-Viking within.

[-- Hidden Talent --]
A prodigious producer of electronic music.



Eric Skogsholm

[-- How They Met John --]
Kindergarten? First Grade? Honestly, we've lost track....

[--  What They're Known For --]
A snarky prankster (to the chagrin of his older and younger siblings) with who seems unimpeded by gravity.

[-- Hidden Talent --]
Nailing the ending dance sequence from Napoleon Dynamite in a highly-convincing costume.



Artie Murphy

[-- How They Met John --]
Cross Country and Track at McKelvie Middle School.

[-- What They're Known For --]
A warm, friendly air with an equally sharp wit.

[-- Hidden Talent --]
Knowing about the next big act in music 6 months before you do.



Keenan Dillard

[-- How They Met John --]
Pre-school? We'd have to check whenever this photo was taken...

[-- What They're Known For --]
Equal parts low-key genius and charming funny-guy.

[-- Hidden Talent --]
Performing a flawless rendition of the piano outro to Layla.


Zack Silversmith

Wedding Party

Q + A

A Quick Note

If you didn't already know, the Seacoast is beautiful in the early fall. Unfortunately, this means we won't be able to offer a block of rooms at any one accommodation and strongly suggest booking as soon as you're able. On the bright side, there are a number of nearby hotels and inns with availability that we're happy to recommend for your visit during our wedding.

Q + A

If I have questions, who should I contact?