Wedding Day

St. Martha Catholic Chapel

Ceremony

The Atrium Center

Reception

Our Wedding

﻿We met in second grade when Richard was the new student in class. Julia recalls Richard's red crocs and that she told him "my cousin's name is Richard" to make him feel better as the new kid. In fifth grade, we were assigned to sit next to each other and became quick friends. Richard remembers how Julia helped him by taking a quiz for him when he was behind in his reading points. By middle school, we would walk to classes together and sit next to each other in Sunday school. Sadly, we had a falling out in 8th grade and didn't talk much during high school. We would still wave at each other in school and before mass. Days after graduation, Richard texted Julia to ask her to lunch. The lunch was really awkward, but we pushed through and quickly picked up our friendship again. We began dating in November of 2020. During our relationship, Julia went to A&amp;M for a degree in biology while Richard went to dive and NDT school. We went through 4 years of visiting each other in between or in each other's cities on the weekends. We worked at Camp Cho-Yeh as counselors together in our first year of dating in 2021. In 2022, Richard visited Julia on her semester abroad in Germany and he started working at NASA later that year. In July of 2024, Julia moved to El Paso for dental school at Texas Tech, and Richard continued working at NASA in Houston. We got engaged in Galveston on September 14th, after visiting Katie (our maid of honor) for her birthday.

Our Story

Photos

Katie

Steven

Nikhita

Neha

Aleks

Addie

Thomas 

Wedding Party

Q + A

Here are a few of the several hotels in the area near the ceremony and reception.

Courtyard Houston Kingwood

Homewood Suites by Hilton Houston-Kingwood Parc-Airport Area

La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Kingwood Houston IAH Airpt

Super 8 by Wyndham Kingwood Houston North

La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Houston New Caney

Travel

The restaurant where both Julia and Richard worked. It is located in King's Harbor with views of Lake Houston.

Raffa's Waterfront Grill

Julia's favorite Mexican restaurant.

Chachi's Mexican Restaurant

A local nature park with trails leading to Lake Houston. The site where Julia and Richard first said "I love you".

Julia & Richard

Julia & Richard

J&R

Wedding Day

2:00 PM

Ceremony

3:00 PM

Reception