At the end
of summer, Krystle and Jason exchanged vows and celebrated the formal start of
their new union at Sand Castle Winery,
which is situated along the banks of the Delaware River in Pennsylvania’s historic
Bucks County. With the majority of
Krystle’s family living in the Midwest and her parents having met her groom on
only two occasions (the second of which was a funeral), she wanted “to have our
story told” so their guests could have the opportunity to learn more about who
they were as a couple. For Jason,
it was important that they honor their families and that their guests see how
important his and Krystle’s partnership was.
Love’s Start:
“In the case of
Jason and Krystle, it took about two years, a lot of prompting, prodding and
fixing up attempts before love started to brew, because as Jason puts it, ‘he
was a professional.' Don’t misunderstand
he wasn’t blind. He first noticed
Krystle about the time she started working at National Life. Jason had swooped
in to save the day and help Krystle set up the AV on a presentation she was to
give.
As the months went
on, he continued to pay attention when his boss Darcy suggested that Krystle
sit in on a bunch of meetings with him for an on-going project. And, as a
‘professional’ in the field of ‘information’ he was absolutely invested when
Krystle was interrupted in the middle of a training session and asked (kind of not
professionally) if she was single?
The
Professional/Personal lines can get blurry and complicated in the modern day
workplace. But now that Jason knew that Krystle was single, he was ready to
take action, “I called her office line and got her voicemail, so I hung up. I
called back, got her voicemail, and hung up. Around this time, she had returned
to her office and assumed we had broken something, so when I called back a
third time and asked her to lunch, I got an excited “Sure!”
But as Jason hung up
the telephone, he wasn’t sure if she understood that he had just asked her out
on a date. They had been working on a long term project together, after all. Thinking
that Krystle, (the real professional), might be under the impression that this
was a working lunch and not a date, Jason prepared himself for the very likely event
that Krystle might bring along a colleague. So when the moment of truth came
for their lunch date, he was relieved that when Krystle arrived—she came alone.
After two years of
being ‘professional’ and not talking to each other, on a Wednesday afternoon over
lunch at a local Italian restaurant-the conditions were finally right. Jason
courageously pitched his metaphorical yeast and Love finally started to brew
between this couple. And you know, there’s nothing more worthwhile in this life
than sharing a plate of spaghetti and your dreams with someone.
What started with a Lady And The Tramp-style lunch, Jason and
Krystle’s courtship soon involved amazing camping trips (something
they both had fond memories doing when they were younger with their own
families), beer festivals, visiting countless microbreweries (Jason proposed at
Wisconsin’s New Glarus Brewing Company, Krystle’s favorite brewery) and a Memorial
Weekend Trip to Pennsylvania to visit Jason’s family. Krystle says, “I knew I
wanted to be with him for the rest of my life after that trip…I felt like I
belonged in his family and I always enjoyed traveling to new places with
Jason.”
Ceremony Highlights:
For their
ceremony, family and friends were treated to a touching and emotional
performance as the bride and groom took turns reading a favorite passage about
relativity from Albert Einstein:
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people
falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics
so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit
with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's
relativity.
Anyone
who knows Jason, knows that he’s passionate about brewing beer and one day
hopes to start his own brewing company as well as a family with Krystle. So it would make sense that the themes
of beer and partnership would be woven throughout the entire wedding.
Jason
and Krystle included a Libations Box +
Love Letters section in their ceremony, where they placed love letters and
a bottle of lambic in a wooden box made by Jason’s father from wood provided by
Krystle’s family’s lumber company. At their reception, guests were treated to a
selection of beers, ales and lagers that Jason brewed just for the occasion.
I am happy
to report that, with a little help from their friends, Krystle and Jason were
successful in overcoming this first obstacle together as a married couple. May all who know and love Jason and Krystle raise a glass to their happiness!
A special
thank you to Aaron Mitchell Photography
for capturing so many wonderful moments at this wedding celebration. I just
love Krystle’s infectious smile!
