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PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR WEDDING CELEBRATION ON

April 1, 2023
27 days until the big day!



OUR STORIES


We are so excited you will be a part of our special day. Below is the story of
our relationship from each of our perspectives - we hope it makes you smile and
more importantly gets a little laugh. After all, we can't take ourselves too
seriously if we chose to get married on April Fool's Day!




FROM JOHN'S PERSPECTIVE:

Haley and I met our first year at Bain as classmates in a group of ~30 new
starts that have become many of our closest friends. Haley and I crossed paths
multiple times that first year as we got settled into our new professional lives
at work events and parties.

However, it wasn’t until the following fall that I caught myself wanting to
spend more and more time with this intelligent, outgoing blonde...

She was confident and always leading a crew of blondes to KSP or walking at
uncomfortably high speeds on Katy Trail. Haley has never met a stranger and was
the only 23 year old to try and bring a charcuterie board to a pre-game at my
dirty apartment.

I was hooked, but she wasn’t shy in telling me I didn’t have a shot at dating
her.

The Sunday before we both went home for Thanksgiving that fall with our
families, I invited her over to my apartment to “try out” a new recipe I was
going to cook for my whole family a few days later at the thanksgiving meal.
Over lamb lollipops with a mint chimichurri*, I finally got that date.

Maybe it was the medium rare lamb or my persistent pursuit, she caved, and these
Sunday night dinners would become a ritual super important to our relationship.

It was through these dinners, occasionally shared with friends or family (or
just the two of us for way too long during COVID), that our relationship has
blossomed and strengthened over the last three and a half years. We’ve laughed,
cried, and shared our dreams with one another over these dinners.

*in full disclosure, I had made this lamb dish a handful of times and thought it
would be the most impressive thing I could make her.





FROM HALEY'S PERSPECTIVE:

For over a year at Bain John and I were in the same friend group and that’s
exactly how I saw him, a friend. Even on a travel case in Austin, Texas when he
was the only other person crazy enough to be ordering tequila waters at an 80’s
cover band performance on a Wednesday then wake up at 5:30am to workout, there
wasn’t yet a romantic spark.

When my Uber cancelled on me after our favorite dive bar (RIP the original Knox
Street Pub) and I did the notorious Stutts walk home, he walked home with me (on
the other side of the street to make his annoyance known) to make sure I got
home safely. When we got to the front of my apartment building, I had to make
sure my intentions were clear, “Just so you know, I won’t date you. I’m trying
to be single.”

Maybe it was my lack of directional ability that made him worry I wouldn’t make
it next time without him or maybe he was attracted to the challenge, but from
then on our sarcastic jokes were a little more flirty and I started to see him
as someone who could be more than a friend. We enjoyed our weekly dinner cooking
everything bagel encrusted ahi tuna and arugula salads together while singing
(horribly) to Brett Young sipping mezcal manhattans.

When I brought him home to meet my family, he and my brother were instantly
friends (never mind that he likely regretted challenging Connor to the Murph
with an audience at Lifetime Fitness - don’t worry, John has won or had Connor
forfeit every year since) and everyone joked that my parents would choose him
over me given the chance (don't tell my mom he suggested we drink nice wine out
of mismatched coffee mugs on our first real date)…at least I’m still the dogs’
favorite!

It’s John’s thoughtfulness, curiosity, wit, and dry sense of humor that make me
love him . We love a long walk on Katy Trail guessing people’s stories as we
pass and debating business models of different companies (even if John likes to
walk more slowly than a snail). Because we were friends first, I’ve never felt
like I need to be anyone but myself with him or keep anything in (although he’d
probably prefer I did sometimes).

He has a way of calming me and reminding me to prioritize what is most important
when I am overwhelmed or frustrated. He challenges me to learn and pursue my
dreams. It’s a miracle he puts up with my late night rambles about some expert
call, my constant need to travel, and the full social calendar I make for us.
and that I’ve successfully brainwashed him into loving golden retrievers as much
as I do.

I hope I can be half of that for him today and in the future. I can’t wait to
spend the rest of my life with him.



Lea Delaveris