Guest Blogger: An Introduction

First, a little introduction. Patrick and I met in Sacramento, California at a little restaurant called the Huki Lau where he offered to take a photo of my group of girlfriends so that I could be in the snapshot, too.

Eventually we were engaged in Sonoma, having enjoyed several similar day-trips to wine country together. After this particular perfect day of wine tasting, Patrick popped the question at a darling restaurant named the Girl and the Fig. He was so nervous that when the waitress brought out our sparking wine, Patrick told her, "We're married now!" though he meant to say "engaged!"

{a cocktail of pisco reservado, grapefruit juice, cracked black pepper and brandied cherries! delicious! oh, those are olives in the background.}

This place had all my favorite cocktails - Pimm's cups, caipirinhas (with real cachaca), lavender infused simple syrup inspired drinks, and basil lemonade! Quite a change of pace from wine, though they had plenty of that too. This place was too adorable; I was so excited Patrick found this restaurant!

Then he fed me cheese. It was a slam dunk.

After we got engaged!

I hardly remember eating dinner after that. We were the last ones on the patio, completely caught up in the moment. Then we spent the drive back to Sacramento figuring out what to do next!

Somewhere in there, we moved to Chicago. And started planning our wedding.

- devon.

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