Gage & Tollner

Rehearsal Dinner

O'Keefe's Bar & Grill

Welcome Drinks

Wedding Day

Dobbin St

Ceremony

Cocktail Hour

Reception

Fall

Our Wedding

We met on our first day of Baylor band camp in August 2016. We were both trumpet players but outside of a quick errand that John once ran for Maddie, we hardly realized the other existed until the summer of 2018 when John slid into Maddie's Twitter DMs with a picture of his dogs, Gracie &amp; Lily.

It may have worked, because Maddie &amp; John started talking on a regular basis. Maddie spent the summer in Waco doing puzzles, playing trivia and listening to music with her best friend &amp; John's roommate, Sean Murphy. Sean was the first to figure out that Maddie &amp; John were talking. In July, John invited Maddie &amp; their BUGWB friends to celebrate his birthday in Galveston.

In August, Maddie &amp; John returned to Waco for BUGWB leadership camp &amp; preseason week. They had their first date at Fuego on August 19th, 2018, the day before the first day of their junior year at Baylor.

Our time together at Baylor flew by, but the highlights included winning the NCAAW Basketball Championship in Tampa, Maddie serving as President of BUGWB and John as Vice President of Stonewall Ultimate, and spending time we had outside of class, work &amp; extracurriculars together. In January 2020, Maddie went to New York to spend her final full semester as a part of the Baylor in New York program.

That's right, Maddie was in New York City in 2020! John visited and left on March 1st, 2020. Maddie never saw it coming, but she would be back in Texas by March 15th to finish her semester, and her Baylor degree, online. We graduated from Baylor in 2020 and spent one last summer in Waco before moving back into our parents' houses.

Frankly, we blocked out a lot of 2020. But in 2021, John moved to Dallas &amp; thus began an era of driving 45 minutes across the metroplex to hang out as much as possible. Shout out to the Apuan's Toll Tag, I'm sure all of those George Bush Turnpike treks really added up. Living in the same "city" didn't last long though, as Maddie finally made her move to New York City in May 2021. Maddie moved in with Baylor in New York classmate &amp; future maid of honor, Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis in Morningside Heights. We spent the year exploring our neighborhood &amp; the city &amp; convincing John to move to New York. John got a job at Captial One thanks to his future best man Parakh's reference, and John moved to New York in May 2022.

We moved to our current apartment on West 76th Street in July 2022. We love seeing Broadway and comedy shows, taking latte walks in Central Park, going to basketball games, traveling, trying new restaurants across the city, and hosting parties &amp; hangouts with our friend group, affectionately referred to as Club Pizza Rat. We also love having visitors and showing friends &amp; family around the city! We would love to have you here (at any other time than October 2025 😉) &amp; show you our favorite spots.

We got engaged on March 16th, 2024 in Central Park. We're so excited to have you in New York to celebrate with us &amp; so thankful to have you in our lives &amp; supporting us in this next chapter.

Our Story

Photos

Sofie & Maddie met when they were both in the Spring 2020 Cohort of the Baylor in New York program. While their time in NYC was cut short due to COVID, they became better friends while playing Animal Crossing over the next year. In July 2021, they moved back to New York together and got their first apartment in their beloved Morningside Heights neighborhood.

Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis

Parakh & John met at Baylor studying Computer Science. They became great friends while working at the library during their junior year. After graduation, they spent a lot of time hanging out while living in Dallas and now they both live in New York.

Parakh Jaggi

Jade & Maddie met in 2012 as freshmen at Rockwall High School when they were both members of the RHS Orange Wave Band. Their friendship would blossom when they became neighbors in Baylor's South Russell dorm and roommates in their house on Wood Ave!

Jade Brown 

Sean quickly became friends with both John and Maddie freshman year through the Baylor Golden Wave Band trumpet section. He always approved of the relationship and was one of the first to catch on to the fact that Maddie and John were talking! Sean and John were roommates at Baylor for 3 years

Sean Murphy

Faith & Maddie always thank Baylor's Random Roommate Generator for bringing them together. Maddie & Faith met in August 2016 when they moved into their shared dorm room in South Russell's dormitory. They became fast friends & lived together all 4 years at Baylor. 

Faith Morris

Dhruv joined the trumpet section of the Baylor Golden Wave Band a year after John and Maddie. Dhruv and John quickly became great friends while both playing for Baylor's Club Ultimate team, Stonewall.

Dhruv Ramesh

Liz & Maddie met when mutual friend Kelsey (Gibbons) Dodd introduced them when Maddie joined Baylor's Kappa Chi Alpha sorority in 2018. That spring, Liz would become Maddie's sorority "big sister" and best friend, spending nearly all of their time together for the next year until Liz graduated. In the summer of 2019, Maddie took her first Zealot internship and moved in with the Scalora family for 7 weeks and commuted into Manhattan every day. 

Liz (Scalora) Daly

Christian also joined the Baylor Golden Wave Band trumpet section a year after John and Maddie. He shares with John a love for the Houston Rockets, a common conversation topic between them.

Christian Spieldenner

Claire & Maddie met when they both joined Kappa Chi Alpha in 2018, became fast friends and ended up becoming "cousins." Maddie & Claire were destined to become friends though, because they share so many interests — baking, crafts, plants, video games, and sports just to name a few!

Claire Costanza

Ricky entered the Baylor Golden Wave Band trumpet section with John and Maddie freshman year. John and Ricky got to know each other through trumpet section events and were roommates for 3 years at Baylor.

Ricky Cobarrubias

Danni & Maddie met when Danni joined the Baylor University Golden Wave Band as a trumpet player in 2018 and Danni was a part of Maddie's squad! They became fast friends and briefly worked together as salespeople for Bare Bucha. 

Danni Wulf

Aaron and John met in high school band. They became especially close friends senior year, often throwing a frisbee at night in the school parking lot or driving to Chinatown for bubble tea.

Aaron Peters

Maddie's little brother of 25 years, Jason and Maddie were best friends as soon as Maddie chose Jason over a puppy. 

Jason Apuan

Maddie is John’s younger sister. Although she decided against joining him at Baylor, their relationship turned out alright(, alright, alright).

Maddie Eyre

Wedding Party

Q + A

We recommend flying into LaGuardia or JFK. Newark will make for a bit of a trek across town!

Please book before September 17th. Guests will need to use the weblink or call reservations and mention the group name (Apuan Eyre wedding) prior to the cut-off date in order to receive the group rate. Guests must supply a credit card to guarantee the reservation. MARRIOTT RESERVATIONS: 800-228-9290

Aloft Long Island City-Manhattan View

Travel

Maddie & John's Favorite NYC Restaurants

- <a href="https://www.forsythianyc.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Forsythia</a> - Lower East Side, Roman pasta, by far our favorite restaurant in New York. Reservation is the easiest way to get in.- <a href="https://www.spicymoonnyc.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spicy Moon</a> - Szechuan Vegan food, any location, it's all good!- <a href="https://www.mamastoo.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mama's Too</a> - Morningside Heights or the West Village. Life-changing pizza, though don't expect a classic New York slice! Our favorites are the Spicy Pepperoni square &amp; the Cacio e Pepe round.- <a href="https://www.nowonusa.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nowon</a> - East Village, Asian Fusion, The Classic Mixtape is so much food and well worth the price. Reservation is the easiest way to get in.- <a href="https://guguroomnyc.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gugu Room</a> - Lower East Side, Filipino-Japanese Fusion. Funky vibes &amp; yummy dishes. Reservation is the easiest way to get in.

Maddie's favorite museum, mostly because of the Jim Henson wing! See Kermit the Frog up close &amp; personal. They also have all kinds of movie screenings to check out.

Museum of the Moving Image

Our very favorite spot &amp; where we got engaged! Our perfect weekend always includes getting a cup of coffee &amp; taking a walk through the greatest park in the world.

Central Park

There isn't a bad show to see, you're going to love whatever you choose! Some of our current favorites include Six, Hadestown, Wicked, Death Becomes Her and Cabaret.

See a Broadway Show

Our neighborhood museum (and our voting location!), we love to meander our way through the American Museum of Natural History and grab lunch. We highly recommend the Invisible Worlds experience, seeing whichever nature short film is playing on the big screen, and seeing the Encounters in the Milky Way show narrated by Pedro Pascal at the Hayden Planetarium. Say hello to the whale for us!

American Museum of Natural History

Upper West Side Favorites

- <a href="https://www.blackpresscoffee.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Black Press Coffee</a> - our favorite coffee shop for a park-walk latte!- <a href="https://grandbazaarnyc.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grand Bazaar</a> - an excellent &amp; well-known flea market on our corner! Open on Sundays only, but brings in the best vintage and craft vendors- <a href="https://www.lapecorabianca.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">La Pecora Bianca</a> - is La Pecora Bianca a New York chain? Yes. Is it also a very solid bowl of pasta AND our very favorite tiramisu? Absolutely it is! You won't be disappointed, we promise!- <a href="https://www.artecafenyc.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arte Cafe</a> - Another Italian spot where you can't go wrong and where we celebrated our engagement with our friends! We love to split the steak frites (Bistecchina) and a pasta on date night.- <a href="https://www.onebiteomakase.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">One Bite Omakase</a> - A very special omakase at a great price (13 pieces for $89, you will be absolutely stuffed by the end).- <a href="https://prohibition.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Prohibition</a> - For live music, great food &amp; an excellent frozen Cosmo. - Lunch spots - Tri Dim West for soup dumplings, Mamoun's for falafel &amp; shawarma, Lenwich for sandwiches

Things to Do

Our registry can be found on Zola:<a href="https://www.zola.com/registry/apuaneyrewedding/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.zola.com/registry/apuaneyrewedding/</a>

Maddie & John

Maddie & John

M&J

Welcome Drinks

Wedding Day

5:00 PM–5:30 PM

Ceremony

5:30 PM–6:30 PM

Cocktail Hour

6:30 PM–11:00 PM

Reception