St Cecilia Church

Wedding Day

Wedding

California Golf Club of San Francisco

Reception

Our Wedding

Monica and Zack met in their favorite place, Pine Grove, where each of their families had a long history of vacationing. Monica was just a few days old when she first went to Pine Grove with her family and Zack just a month&nbsp;with his. Monica and Zack grew up spending their summers at the very place where they would later end up falling in love. From spending&nbsp;days&nbsp;at the pool together, to lanyard making, bingo, talent shows, and of course competitive chinese bat ball games, they spent countless summer days and nights together throughout their teenage years. Upon graduation from Chico State, Zack moved to the Bay Area. It soon became clear that their love was more than just a&nbsp;summer fling, it truly was everlasting love.&nbsp;Last November, the couple took the next step as Zack got down on one knee&nbsp;and asked to spend the rest of&nbsp;their&nbsp;lives together.&nbsp;

Our Story

This past November,&nbsp;Monica planned a weekend getaway to Cobb with a few friends. Zack jumped at the chance to use this moment to set up his dream proposal and give Monica the surprise of a lifetime. Zack only shared the secret with a select few, and even trusted Monica's Maid of Honor, Tina, along with his Best Man, Nick, and Groomsman, Steve, to hide the secret for the weekend trip. A&nbsp;Saturday&nbsp;morning walk with Monica's family dog, Yogi, provided the perfect opportunity for Zack. He led the group through the grove and got down on one knee in front of the Pine Grove pool, the same location where Monica and Zack met.

How He Proposed

Details

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Tina and Monica's friendship started as kindergarteners at St Cecilia and it&nbsp;has&nbsp;grown especially close in the last few years. She has truly become the sister Monica&nbsp;never had. As sisters do, they share a lot including&nbsp;shopping selfies,&nbsp;their&nbsp;love for veggie bagels, and their boyfriends'&nbsp;apartment. Tina has even made her way into our Cobb family too.&nbsp;Tina is passionate, kind, loud, and incredibly loving. We&nbsp;wouldn't have it any other way and can't wait to have her stand beside Monica as her Maid of Honor.



Tina Balistreri

These two are more like brothers than friends.&nbsp;Zack (only two months old)&nbsp;was at the hospital while Nick was born.&nbsp;It is safe to say they have been&nbsp;best friends ever since.&nbsp;Nick's&nbsp;and Zack's families&nbsp;have been inseparable, including countless trips,&nbsp;having&nbsp;season tickets to the Raiders, and sharing what seems to be every&nbsp;life experience&nbsp;together. Nick will stand by Zack as his Best Man on the big day.













Nick Hill

Annie and Monica have had a long lasting friendship, even while she hasn't lived nearby in over 9 years. They spent almost every high school recess and lunch together, of course as long as Annie wasn't catching up on sleep&nbsp;due to her demanding schedule of&nbsp;theatre performances. Monica and Annie love taking their dogs to the beach, constantly trying to teach Mila how to swim,&nbsp;and exploring new places together.&nbsp;









Annie Dahlberg

Zack met Steve at Chico State&nbsp;orientation,&nbsp;though they&nbsp;never even talked to each other that day beyond a hello.&nbsp;They were then&nbsp;placed&nbsp;in class together and from there&nbsp;a lifelong&nbsp;friendship began. Their next year at Chico they became roommates and to this day,&nbsp;5 years later,&nbsp;they still&nbsp;remain roommates. Steve and Zack&nbsp;have explored living in the Bay Area together,&nbsp;weekend trips with their girlfriends who are also best friends, many&nbsp;sporting events (even though he is a Dodgers fan) and also&nbsp;played on&nbsp;a&nbsp;bowling team together.&nbsp;

Steve Christian

Jessica and Monica have been friends since their early&nbsp;days at St Cecilia. They grew&nbsp;even closer&nbsp;bonding over&nbsp;5:30am practices at Lake Merced, countless sleepovers at the Baldwin house, and&nbsp; the many nights spent exploring the city or better described as&nbsp;exploring the Marina, her favorite spot. While Jessica now lives in Houston, they keep in touch over long phone calls and her holiday visits back to the city.

Jessica Baldwin

Zack met Lance in surveying class,&nbsp;when&nbsp;Lance preferred to hang out with Zack's&nbsp;group instead of his assigned one. They bonded over Mug Club at The Bear in Chico and stayed friends ever&nbsp;since.&nbsp;They enjoy&nbsp;offroading in the snow in one of Lance's many vehicles,&nbsp;staying out all night at the&nbsp;Chico bars, and Lance's many trips down to visit the Bay Area.

Lance Knifong

As the youngest of older brothers as well,&nbsp;Liz and Monica&nbsp;spent the beginning years of their friendship traveling from game to tournament to race. Much of their childhood together was surrounded by sports but they loved being&nbsp;together and&nbsp;every car ride spent&nbsp;listening to 96.5 koit. Liz and Monica leaned on each other a lot&nbsp;as they tried new things, including&nbsp;learning rowing freshman year, Latin class,&nbsp;and what it was like to be a college athlete.

Liz Watters

Zack and Zach&nbsp;have an ongoing&nbsp;joke between their friend group of how to properly&nbsp;pronounce Zac(h/k),&nbsp;so they know which&nbsp;person is being referred&nbsp;to. The two became good friends while being a part of the steel bridge team and the countless hours spent on the project. However, that isn't the only team they were apart of as recently they were on&nbsp;a bowling team&nbsp;together. They continue to&nbsp;find new happy hour locations and fun activities to do together&nbsp;on the weekend.

Zach Silverman

Zack and Jacob&nbsp;shared almost every class together at Chico State&nbsp;and in their senior year were partners for practically every project they were assigned. After a year of being just "class" friends, they decided to actualy hang out outside of school and began going&nbsp;out on the weekends and having game nights. After his time at UC Davis&nbsp;grad school&nbsp;Jacob&nbsp;joined Zack at O'Dell Engineering for their first engineering jobs together.







Jacob Smith

Arielle and Monica met walking to their first practice at Cal rowing freshman year. The two were inseparable at weights practice all season long, which in part may have been due to the fact that they were the two shortest rowers, but none the less it laid a foundation for a great friendship. Over the years at Cal they enjoyed game days, JAM&nbsp;house festivities, many Sacramento trips,&nbsp;sleeping through 9am class after practice only to wake up for the test, and sophisticated "new" cocktail nights at the Derby house.&nbsp;Arielle now lives in Sacramento and when they have the chance to hang out, they don't hesitate to relive all the great roommate stories.&nbsp;

Arielle Rediger

Brian&nbsp;is Monica's oldest&nbsp;brother. Zack met Brian&nbsp;at&nbsp;Cobb and over the last several&nbsp;years they&nbsp;have grown closer spending weekends together at the cabin. You can find them&nbsp;playing corn hole, relaxing at the cabin,&nbsp;and&nbsp;going out&nbsp;in SF. Brian and Zack have common interests, most specifically knowing the most useless&nbsp;sports stats.









Brian Franceschi

Jenn and Monica&nbsp;met at the San&nbsp;Diego&nbsp;Crew Classic the spring season&nbsp;before starting Cal. Little did they know then, that they would become roommates for 3 years at Cal. As college roommates do, they taught each other a lot over their&nbsp;years at Cal. Jenn taught Monica how to bend the rules,&nbsp;properly decorate for every holiday, and the importance of dessert first and always. Monica taught Jenn that NorCal was and always will be superior to SoCal :). They may not agree on that but I think they can agree that their time at&nbsp;Cal and their lives wouldn't be the same without each other.&nbsp;

Jenn Helsen

Adrienne and Monica met in 5th grade when Adrienne joined the St Cecilia basketball team. Even though she was new to a group of girls that spent the last 5 years together, she wasn't phased at all. Adrienne showed her spunk and enthusiasm then&nbsp;and it hasn't stopped since. Monica and Adrienne grew closer when she joined the St Cecilia class in 7th grade and the friendship continued on through high school and beyond. They bonded over SI rowing, eating lunch daily&nbsp;in psychology class, and most recently spending time walking their dogs around the Ingleside neighborhood.&nbsp;

Adrienne Bechelli

Mikey is Monica's brother. Zack and Mikey&nbsp;share a common love for&nbsp;football. You can often find them talking about the&nbsp;latest football update, talking&nbsp;about&nbsp;Mikey's college team he coaches,&nbsp;or sitting&nbsp;down to&nbsp;watch a game together.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mikey has a bit of a different work schedule that keeps him pretty&nbsp;busy&nbsp;but when Mikey gets the chance he makes sure to join in on&nbsp;the festivities Monica and Zack partake&nbsp;in&nbsp;and have a great time.







Mikey Franceschi

Bissy and Monica grew up together at St Cecilia and throughout&nbsp;St Ignatius. While they attended different colleges, during their Spring semester of senior year they realized they were interviewing for the same job post graduation. They were lucky enough to both land the job and kick off their careers together at Oracle. I think they can both agree that surviving Oracle&nbsp;was greatly impacted by having each other and of course the downstairs omlette bar for breakfast dates didn't hurt either. Bissy definitely has the travel bug and Monica loves to live&nbsp;vicariously through her travels.&nbsp;

Bissy Sancimino

Zack met Michael as young kids at Bodega Bay Elementary School. Their friendship continued through high school and beyond. They shared many&nbsp;days roaming through&nbsp;the Dunes Campground, shooting hoops at the school, and&nbsp;playing&nbsp;pool in the garage. Although they both no longer live in Bodega Bay they make time to&nbsp;catch&nbsp;up almost every time Zack returns home.







Michael Freeman

Zack met Colin as young kids at Pine Grove. Growing up together they have&nbsp;spent many summer weekends going to the pool, playing bingo, square dancing,&nbsp;and an occasional golf round. Colin can also be counted on to bring a positive attitude and laugh to the group, especially as an awesome&nbsp;charades player.&nbsp;

Colin Campbell

Rachel and Monica met at St Cecilia and continued their friendship through the years. Monica and Rachel have&nbsp;undoubtedly always&nbsp;shared a common love for dogs.&nbsp;As kids in the St Cecilia school yard they would&nbsp;play&nbsp;lion tamer, with Monica's vicious golden retriever. Rachel currently lives in Denver, but every trip home they make sure to meet up for&nbsp;a beach walk or sunset.



Rachel Mills

Wedding Party

Q + A

Registry

The ceremony location (St. Cecilia Catholic Church) has an attached parking lot that will be available for use. It is accessible from Vicente Street between 17th and 18th Avenues, or on 18th Avenue between Vicente and Ulloa Streets.

 





The reception location (California Golf&nbsp;Club of San Francisco) has a large parking lot that will available for use. It is accessible from W. Orange Avenue.

Ceremony & Reception Parking

Reservations can&nbsp;be booked&nbsp;using the&nbsp;link below&nbsp;or by calling 650-872-1515 and referencing group code ‘FWW’. Please note the courtesy block pricing will expire at the end of August.

*Option to choose 1 or 2 night stay

Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North

Reservations can&nbsp;be booked by using the&nbsp;link below&nbsp;or by calling 650-246-3164&nbsp;and referencing group code ‘FWW’.&nbsp;Please note the courtesy block pricing will expire at the end of August.

*Option to choose 1 or 2 night stay

Monica & Zack

Monica & Zack

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