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Our story starts in August of 2014.&nbsp; We both went to celebrate our friend (and bridesmaid) Christine's birthday.&nbsp; Laura bought John a drink at the bar and John thought, "Wow that's forward. I better go talk to someone else".&nbsp; So he did.&nbsp; And they parted ways.The re-met through the same friends, a second time.&nbsp; They had both volunteered to be the designated drivers for their friends and bonded over that.&nbsp; Because they were the DD's for their friends, they were at the whim of the inebriated souls they showed up with.&nbsp; Because of that, John was unable to get Laura's number, and like the geek he is, he waited until the next day to Facebook message Laura explaining that he needed to "take care of my drunk friends" and was unable to ask for her number.&nbsp; He then asked for it on Facebook and asked if she'd like to get dinner sometime.&nbsp; They went out a few times, but Laura ultimately decided to part ways on friendly terms (after John sent a photo of himself with an eye patch).&nbsp; John had some growing up to do, and Laura had to figure out what she wanted in life. Fast forward again.&nbsp; They're out with those same friends.&nbsp; Again.&nbsp; Laura was single.&nbsp; John was going through a break up.&nbsp; They danced together all night, and had a blast.&nbsp; Something clicked for John and a few days later (while Laura was on a date with another guy) John asked Laura if she'd like to go out again.&nbsp; They walked around Castle Island, had dinner at Jerry Remy's (now Tony C's) in the Seaport, and had their best date yet.&nbsp; That same area of the Seaport is where John officially asked Laura to be his girlfriend, with a gift of a Cape Cod necklace that she has worn almost everyday since. Laura and John have enjoyed family trips, and friend trips. Trips to the Cape, Hawaii, Grand Cayman, Colorado, Florida, West Virginia, Missouri, Portland, Newport and tons of places in between.&nbsp; They've attended almost 20 weddings together so far.&nbsp; They live together in Hyde Park.&nbsp; They enjoy going to the beach, house parties with friends, and the occasional night in of TV, or movies.

How We Met

In late August/early September of 2018, John finally started working up the courage to ask Laura's mother and father for their blessings in asking Laura to marry him.&nbsp; They both said yes.&nbsp; Laura's mother even gave John the name of an amazing jeweler in Boston to go to.&nbsp; John went and bought the ring and came up with a plan.&nbsp; Using the fact that future bridesmaid, and friend, Caitlin had never been to the Cape, John and Laura "convinced" Caitlin and David to go to John's Cape house for the weekend.&nbsp; Little did Laura know, Caitlin and David, and their faithful pup Nala, were in on the proposal.&nbsp; Laura's mother and sister, Liz (also the Maid of Honor) were also in on the proposal. On the morning of Sunday, September 16, 2018 the group, plus John's sister Elizabeth and friend Olivia, made their way to Highland Lighthouse in Truro, where Laura's mother has a cottage.&nbsp; David stayed with Nala, outside.&nbsp; Laura, John, Cailtin, Elizabeth and Olivia went on a tour of the lighthouse.&nbsp; When they got to the top of the lighthouse they tried to look around.&nbsp; Though the Cape itself was a little cloudy they were able to see a little bit.&nbsp; John said "I wonder if we can see Nala from up here".&nbsp; (Laura guffawed at the idea of us not being able to see the husky from only 100 or so feet up in the air.)&nbsp; Little did Laura know, this was the code phrase John had come up with for Cailtin to bring Laura over to the side of the lighthouse where David and Nala were now standing with Laura's mother, Jean, and sister, Liz. Jean and Liz were holding signs that read "Will You Marry Me?" that they had made for John to use.&nbsp; When Laura turned around, John was on one knee and started his speech.&nbsp; Laura's answer was at first "Thank you" (because John had complimented her and was giving her a gift, thus thank you being the appropriate response according to Laura) and with happy tears in her eyes she said yes!&nbsp; They celebrated with a&nbsp; trip to Truro Vineyards for some wine and gin.&nbsp; After that the celebration continued with the uncorking of champagne on the beach Laura grew up going to her whole life, Fisher Beach.&nbsp; The rest is history, and now we're coming up to the part where all of you wonderful people help us celebrate and make more memories!

The Proposal

COVID-19 Concerns

Sadly, we will be postponing our wedding due to&nbsp;caution for the&nbsp;Coronavirus.&nbsp;&nbsp; Our new date is January 9, 2021!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Luckily we were able to get the same&nbsp;venue and the same vendors for that date! We look forward to seeing you all there!

Our Story

Our Wedding

Worries

Sadly, we will be postponing our wedding due to&nbsp;caution for the&nbsp;Coronavirus.&nbsp;&nbsp; Our new date is January 9, 2021!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Luckily we were able to get the same&nbsp;venue and the same vendors for that date! We look forward to seeing you all there!

RSVP Extension

The original date for the RSVP was May 1, 2020.&nbsp; The invitations were printed and sent before the COVID-19 virus really started to sink in here in&nbsp;America.&nbsp;&nbsp;We will open up the RSVP date to May 15, 2020, and will continue to update our website with word of how the country as a whole is dealing with the virus.&nbsp; If you have any concerns you may reach out to John or Laura.&nbsp; If there are any changes to the wedding or future extensions for the RSVP, we will post them here.&nbsp; Thank you for understanding during this trying time.&nbsp; We love you all. Also, we will be adding the ability to RSVP to our wedding here on our website in the coming days.

Details

John and Dan met in 8th grade in Science class.&nbsp; Dan was coming back from the nurse and was told by Mr. Fisher to sit with John.&nbsp; John looked up and said “pshhh&hellip;look at this nerd with the helmet of hair gel that moves as one solid piece.”&nbsp; Dan looked at John and said “pshhh&hellip;look at this nerd with the glasses”.&nbsp; And from that day on, the two nerds were friends.&nbsp; They danced their way through show choir, sang their way through musicals and won the hearts of very few girls in their high school years.&nbsp; They became slightly cooler in college (Dan sang a capella and John sang to anybody who would listen).&nbsp; One could even say that once out of college, they actually became cool.&nbsp; Sadly, we haven’t found that one person who says that yet. &nbsp; Though Dan moved to New York, they remain the best of friends.

Dan Farrell

The Bride's sister, Liz was an easy choice for MOH.&nbsp; Laura has known Liz her entire life, that's the benefit of being family.&nbsp; Growing up together they have experienced everything together- summers in Truro and family vacations to Maine, Aruba,&nbsp; and Hawaii.&nbsp; Laura has followed in Liz's footsteps going to the same schools and even&nbsp;sharing some of the same roommates (thanks Erin Kelly for putting up with both of us even though we're polar opposites).&nbsp; Liz was a natural choice for Maid of Honor being my only sister and longest friend.

Elizabeth Boback

Christine AKA Letschy AKA&nbsp;the matchmaker.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our friendship is all thanks to NDA&nbsp;and the Bride stalking Letschy in the freshman locker room and forcing a friendship that has lasted about 15 years- scary.&nbsp; Not only is Lestchy one of Laura's closest friends, her birthday party is where Laura and John met back in 2014.&nbsp; Letschy&nbsp;and&nbsp;Laura share a love for all things country music&nbsp;through better and worse.&nbsp; Letschy&nbsp;has been there through it all, always being the sound voice of reason and one of the most reliable, loyal friends.

Christine Letsche

John and Chris are friends from high school.&nbsp; They have remained close friends since their days of singing in choir. Their friendship grew stronger through walks to the Plant Depot (RIP) for ice cream and slushies in the summer of 2002.&nbsp; Both rather competitive people, Chris decided to one up John in most ways in life. From being cooler, to going to a better college, to becoming a doctor or something like that.&nbsp; John finally won something by getting engaged first, but no one is keeping score or anything.&nbsp; Currently&nbsp; living in Philly, he is also sorely missed by the groom, but John will keep trying to convince Chris that Philadelphia is not a real city and that he should come back to Boston.

Chris Ilacqua

Meg is one of Laura's best friends from college.&nbsp; Meg and Laura met in an ethics class and became quick friends (despite Meg realizing Laura was a dork, proclaiming to the entire class something interesting about Laura is her love or animal fun facts).&nbsp; Through class and then living in the same dorm Meg and Laura became inseparable.&nbsp; From being stranded during Nemo and movie watching (crying through Hunger Games and sleeping through Beaches) to driving back and forth from Boston to RI after graduation their friendship only strengthened.&nbsp; Meg is always there for a good laugh and crazy adventure.

Megan Walsh

Josh Wainwright. Another groomsman.&nbsp; Another high school friend.&nbsp; It’s like they all did the same activity.&nbsp; Like some singing and some synchronized choreographed dancing.&nbsp; Josh the guy with the pool, so John made sure to actually be friends with this guy.&nbsp; Turned out Josh was pretty fun to hangout with even in wintertime without the use of his pool.&nbsp; They grew closer throughout, and after, college as two of the guys who remained in Easton for a long time after high school.&nbsp; Typical townies, they went to some of the same bars as Laura and her Stonehill friends, though no one ever met each other as far as we know.&nbsp; Their love of sports, country music, karaoke, and line dancing formed and unbreakable bond.&nbsp; John even got to be a groomsman for Josh, so yeah...they’re buds.

Josh Wainwright

Another of John’s high school friends, their friendship harkensback to the early days of 8th grade when John met Steve and thought to himself “who is the 35 year old in my junior high math class”.&nbsp; Amazingly Steve still looks 35.&nbsp; Luckily for him, he soon will be.&nbsp; The two-time All-State musician has always been a close friend and confidant since those early days of choir/musicals.&nbsp; Like most of John’s high school friends he moved away, going to school in Washington D.C.&nbsp; After school he did something few high school friends-turned-groomsman have done, he returned to Massachusetts.&nbsp; With a family of his own, Steve tries to rope John into helping him do manual labor at his house.&nbsp; One day, John may actually help.

Steve Twiraga

Emily is John's youngest sister.&nbsp; Laura met Emily right before her High School graduation. &nbsp;Emily and her friends happened to go to the same restaurant Laura and John were at for a date early on.&nbsp; Emily came over and started chatting with us.&nbsp; Since then we have traveled the world together on family vacations.&nbsp; Emily, an avid horse lover and owner has encouraged my love of horses making sure we always try to incorporate riding horses wherever we are- Grand Cayman to Missouri.&nbsp; Being Laura's defacto "hype girl" will surely help her with the upcoming bridesmaids duties.

Emily Martin

Tommy is the first non-high school friend on the list.&nbsp; He is the very-soon-to-be husband of Ashley, one of John’s closest and oldest female friends.&nbsp; They bonded over the fact that they both liked soccer and were fun to party with, but then they discovered that they’re both not-so-secret nerds.&nbsp; With a common love of Marvel, Star Wars and Game of Thrones, just to name a few things, they found in each other a kinship neither knew was needed in their lives.&nbsp; They tend to go to a lot of those movies together and even let Laura and Ashley tag along from time to time.

Tommy Mulcahy

Caitlin is Laura's newest BFF&nbsp;thanks to DB (aka David, also see groomsman).&nbsp; Laura and DB became friends at Stonehill, after graduation he started dating Caitlin and eventually they got married (although I still constantly refer to her as Caitlin Fowler).&nbsp; Caitlin and Laura have shared skiing excursions from the east coast to Colorado, low key nights in and everything in between.&nbsp; Caitlin is also the number one drill sergeant for all things fitness and is trying to get Laura to love dogs by continually exposing her to Nala.&nbsp; Laura and Caitlin are two peas in a pod, I'm so thankful DB found her and now Caitlin gets to be part of my life forever.



Caitlin Broderick

The only groomsman to actually live with John, Peter and John have had a lifetime of adventures in a short period of time knowing one another.&nbsp; They’ve played many a videogame, watched many a movie and have even made a trip down to West Virginia, where couches were burned and epic parties were thrown, despite them knowing about three people in the area.&nbsp; They’ve become more like brothers throughout their friendship, even after Peter moved out west to Worcester, married, and started a family. An early champion of John and Laura being together, Peter is even part of the reason John and Laura met in the first place.&nbsp; Though they don’t see each other as much as they would like to, they keep in touch pretty constantly.&nbsp; &nbsp;John knows Peter is probably drinking a beer while reading this.&nbsp; Guessing it may be something from Treehouse? Whatever it is, it’s probably good.

Peter McDade

Little did we know, when we were placed as neighbors in the Sem (Stonehill's Freshman dorm) that we would become eventual roommates and the best of friends.&nbsp; Erin is the sweetest person Laura knows and has a heart as big as can be.&nbsp; I'm really glad we didn't continue ignoring each other&nbsp;from when we were 2 of 3 people living on upper B during preseason.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our friendship has survived wearing rival jerseys to every sports game we've ever attended together.&nbsp; Erin is also John's second girlfriend for any game of thrones or musical activity Laura doesn't want to be John's plus one for (thanks for always saving me from these!) 

Erin Kelly

Katie Austin and Laura met in an education class at Stonehill when indecisive Laura was still trying to find a major.&nbsp; Katie was forced to sit with Laura and some other Sem girls.&nbsp; Ever since then Katie has been&nbsp;an honorary member of the Sem.&nbsp; They say high adrenaline situations create stronger bonds, we have a yellow light to thank for our friendship.&nbsp; From strangers forced to go to a PTO meeting together, long distance BFFs, to temporary roommates (with Laura and John) Laura and Katie have been through it all together.&nbsp; I'm lucky to have a best friend, my own personal therapist, and a bridesmaid all wrapped up into one.

Katie Austin

One of John’s newest friends, he’s actually a friend of Laura's from Stonehill.&nbsp; But through their mutual love of gin , IPAs, videogames, and making fun of Laura they have become fast friends. The husband of Bridesmaid Caitlin, David and John both get to suffer through the friendship that is Laura and Caitlin.&nbsp; But secretly they enjoy it, because they get to suffer together...with beer. &nbsp;They also bonded through watching the McGregor/Mayweather fight together on John's iPhone at a hotel in Portland, while drinking scotch after the ladies had gone to bed.&nbsp;

David Broderick

Elizabeth is John's younger sister.&nbsp; Elizabeth and Laura met later the same day as meeting Emily.&nbsp; While Laura and John started dating Elizabeth was away at school in&nbsp;West Virginia. &nbsp;Since her graduation Laura and Elizabeth have been able to spend more time together, and have bonded over their mutual love for the Cape.&nbsp; Elizabeth and Laura have experienced a lot together and Elizabeth still puts up with my loud personality.

Elizabeth Martin

Another one of John's newest friends, Scott is one of Laura's closest friends from Stonehill.&nbsp; Much like with David, bonding occurred over drinks, parties, their love of the Celtics, and making fun of Laura.&nbsp; They've gone to quite a few concerts (most notably Kyle, because he's Super Duper) and tend to sing a lot of songs together, from T Swift to Disney to Lukas Graham.&nbsp; You can catch Scott out on the dance floor.

Scott Durocher

Pete is John’s brother, and the Usher for the wedding. Sadly, he lives in Florida so John doesn’t get to visit Pete as often ashe would like to, but is super excited to have him be a part of his wedding.&nbsp; John is looking forward to having a fruity drink with Peter, as he's of legal drinking age now and like their mother, John loves fruity drinks, so he's thinking his brother probably does too!

Peter Lagana

Wedding Party

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Q + A

Registry

There are multiple room types available at Nantasket Beach Resort. Shuttle to-and-from Red Lion Inn will be provided (about a 15 minute drive).For those getting in earlier, there is also a room block set aside for Friday-Sunday.

Laura & John

Laura & John

L&J

Wedding Day

Wedding

Reception