Our Story
Our Story
We met at a "holy balls" party...
Our mutual friends Emmy and Paul hosted a "holy balls" Christmas party which was a pot-luck where everything had to be in a ball shape. Prior to the party, Emmy had told Shan that there may be someone there who would be of interest. When Shoko arrived, Shan glanced at the door and knew that she was the woman Emmy had in mind as a potential match. During the course of the evening it was discovered that we both shared a liking for crepes and Shan recommended that they go to a nearby crepe place, Creperie St. Germain sometime.
Once family holiday trips and work travel had passed, we had our first date at Cotogna and it went so well that we continued the evening at a nearby Jazz supper club called Bix. The first date was magical and Shan broke "the rules" and invited Shoko for drinks a few days later on Valentine's day. The weekend after, we had our first full day date together and explored Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower. We had our first picture together there and little did we know that it would be the photo we'd eventually use for our wedding's save the date cards!
He Proposed
He Proposed
It was a cold evening on Telegraph hill...
We knew for a long time that we were destined to get married but Shan still wanted to have an element of surprise and so on one of our regular "month-aversaries" Shan had a ring in his possession and was ready to pop the question. Shan had gotten the flowers, a dinner reservation at the same Cotogna table of the first date and was rushing home from getting the flowers dropped off at the restaurant. We headed out to dinner at a "surprise restaurant" but Shan took a strange route on the winding road up to Telegraph Hill. When we arrived at the top, Shan insisted on snapping a quick photo before heading nearby to dinner. The wind was gusting and the temperature had dropped to make things very uncomfortable. As we walked around the tower to a little clearing overlooking the city, Shoko was beginning to question the wisdom of this photo. When Shan got down on his knee, instead of taking his camera out of the camera bag, he pulled a small box out and instead of a photo, he proposed!
She Said Yes
She Said Yes
