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Our Wedding

The start of our story is in October of 2022. We met during a Halloween bar crawl at Brothers Bar and Grill in Broad Ripple. Although we didn’t realize we were apart of the same group the whole time, we had spent the whole night around one another but never talked past our introductions. Maddie was introduced to Joey who was in a gingerbread man costume. He proceeded to say hi and ask “do you know where the muffin man is” which, as always, got everyone at the table and Maddie laughing. As we went our separate ways and it was time we all were ready to leave, we ended up at the same house with our friends. Present but not yet interacting Maddie decided to sit down on the couch next to Joe. We ended up talking about our life and our family, showing the pictures we have and showing off our nieces and nephews. We were shocked and excited about how similar we were! Joey suddenly got rushed away by his Uber arriving and he walked out the door saying goodbye. Maddie made the comment “if anyone wants to know my type, he just walked out the door!” A phone call was immediately made by a friend and we were exchanging numbers, laughing like we were moments before.

Our First Date

Joey was living in Fort Wayne for the first part of the relationship. One Friday he drove down to Indy, which happened quite often, and got to Maddie’s fifteen minutes early and sat a block away because he was so nervous. We ended up taking an Uber to The Eagle for dinner while our Uber driver was very interesting to say the least. Afterwards we walked down the street stopping at 16BIT to have a drink and play some arcade games. We soon realized that we didn’t have any small bills to get quarters for the games so Joey ended up putting a $20 for us to play only a couple of the games and to this day, we still have some of the change in a jar.

Our relationship was quickly becoming serious as we became spending every weekend together we could. Our first trip together was to Cape Coral Florida where we stayed with Joey's mom for a week. We partook in daily games and a pickle ball tournament, beach and pool days, fishing and lots of music! During our trip we had the chance to see The Little River Band. About mid concert, while waiting in line Joey turns to me and says “I love you”. Maddie was at a loss for words and even though she knew she loved him, she hugged and kissed Joey and carried on conversation. The next day it took Maddie knew she had to make up for not saying it in response to him so she had to find the most perfect way. While laying in the sun and enjoying the day, Maddie wrote "I Love You" in the sand for Joey to see.

The “I Love You’s” 

In April we took a family vacation to Turks &amp; Caicos where we spent the week taking in the beautiful Island. On our last full day, we had went to get lunch with a beautiful view before coming back to this particular beach. As this was the second day we chose to come to this beach and it had the clearest water with a pier and rock path leading to a cliff with the most beautiful gazebo and the prettiest view.We were convinced to go up to the Gazebo to take pictures of other couples and of the girls. Everyone was taking pictures under the gazebo and since we had already taken a picture the day before Maddie was not paying attention to taking another picture and was off in the distance looking at the view. It took a second to be convinced to get over there and when Maddie thought it was just a picture, it ended up being the start of our forever.

Madison & Joseph

Madison & Joseph

Engagement Photos