OUR STORY

It all started on the morning of Saturday, September 28th, 2019 when two young people sat next to each other on what was supposed to be a “quick” flight from Washington, DC to New York. Lorea was on her way home to Brooklyn from a work trip in DC. Ben had been living in DC and was going to see his family on Long Island for the Jewish holidays. Neither of us would have been on that flight under normal circumstances – Lorea normally would have flown back Friday but had to stay for a client dinner Friday night; Ben normally would have taken the train back but had been out with friends Friday night and needed to be back in time Saturday for a reception for the introduction of his new niece, Anna, to the extended family.

They both noticed each other, but one was quicker to try to strike up the conversation (we’ll let you guess who). As fate would have it, their plane was delayed for an hour on the tarmac before takeoff, and the conversation started to flow fast and deep. It continued to flow all the way to the passenger pickup at LaGuardia, where a couple hours after a near-ruinous misstep from one of them (we’ll let you guess who) not seizing the right moment to ask for a number, a LinkedIn connection was made. That LinkedIn connection eventually blossomed into a real life connection, a bi-country and bi-city romance during the height of Covid, many more flights and adventures together (see some examples in the pics below), moving in together in DC and then back in Brooklyn, an engagement at the top of Mt. Washington, and soon, to a wedding in Lorea’s home region of Navarra.

We are so excited to be celebrating this chapter of our story and love with all of you, and grateful to those who are able to make the journey to Spain from afar!