| Important Dates |
First Date: April 7, 2003
Engagement: December 20, 2006
Wedding: November 3, 2007
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| About Us |
We are both Environmental Engineers at Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. in Newport News, VA, and actually have our company to thank for introducing us! Steve is an avid boomerang thrower, speaks a good amount of German and some Russian and Stephanie loves all things Florida and France. We look forward to our lifetime together filled with family, domestic and international travel (someone needs to learn Spanish!), sunsets, fireworks, and enjoying the great outdoors. How We Met We both were attending the company's bi-annual technical symposium in Stamford, CT. Since Stephanie was based out of the Newport News, VA office, and Steve was working in Florida, they probably never would have met. However, Stephanie had been spending some time working in Tampa, and was introduced by the Tampa folks to Steve, who worked in Orlando. He got her number in Connecticut and then asked her out for dinner back in Florida. Steve drove to Tampa from Orlando for dinner at the Tampa Brewing Company and to watch Syracuse, his alma mater, win the NCAA basketball national championship. Not a bad date! They saw each other several more times that week before Stephanie returned to Newport News. A year later, Steve moved up to Virginia, and the rest is history...
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| The Proposal |
Steve and I were relaxing in front of a roaring fire on the chilly Wednesday evening of December 20th. We decided to open up our Christmas gifts a couple of days early in preparation for our trip to Florida for Christmas and New Years. After all the gifts were opened, Steve told me to leave the room so that he could hide the pickle ornament in the Christmas tree for the Pickle Gift. (In his family, the parents would hide a glass pickle ornament in the tree on Christmas Eve, and whoever found it, received a special gift Christmas morning. Steve and I have been taking turns with this tradition - this was his year). I got called back in to look for the ornament while he was stoking the fire in the fireplace. It took only a minute or two, and then I found it! I turned to Steve and asked for my present. He told me to bring the ornament to him. Really? We'd never done it that way in the last three years, but what do I know? It's his family tradition. I took the ornament off the tree and walked to him in front of the fireplace, and handed him the pickle. "Where's my present?," I asked again. He looked at me like I was crazy, looked a the ornament now in his hand, and looked back at me. There, looped over the hook and sitting on top of the ornament was the most beautiful ring! He got down on one knee as it began to sink in, and he asked me to marry him. I said yes.
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