April & Paul’s Pretty Chevy Chase Country Club Wedding

Oct 23

April and Paul met like all other modern love stories – on an obscure dating app. Paul was the first person that April met on a dating app; their first date was at a Mexican restaurant where they hit it off and talked for multiple hours. They were able to joke around from the beginning, and he even made a "choose your own adventure" PowerPoint presentation for her before making things official.

April and Paul enjoy playing games with family, which is what gave Paul the idea for his proposal. He contacted the creator of one of their favorite games, Doomlings. Paul worked with the team at Doomlings to create a card to use while playing a round with April’s family, and had the ring ready after he played the card. The card has a caricature of April and Paul with their cat and dog, with the backdrop of Yellowstone, as they had just returned from a trip through Yellowstone. What a unique and creative way to propose!!

Conrad and Lindsay were excited to celebrate April and Paul’s wedding with them over Labor Day weekend at one of our favorite venues, Chevy Chase Country Club. After first meeting at the hotel for some sweet getting ready photos and a bridesmaids’ reveal with April and her girls we headed to the beautiful St. John Brebeuf Church to meet with Paul before their traditional Catholic ceremony. Paul sweetly shed SO many tears when April walked down the aisle, and then after the ceremony he kept looking at and touching the new ring on his finger. Paul’s wedding ring was especially unique as it has pieces of meteor embedded in it! As they walked back down the aisle after becoming husband and wife Paul did a happy little heel-click jump, it was just the most joyful moment!

After photos at the church we made our way to Chevy Chase for more pictures with the wedding party before the reception began. Guests were treated to some amazing live music during cocktail hour, and there were gorgeous flowers everywhere thanks to April’s Mom – she lovingly put in so much work and designed the flowers as a gift for her daughter! Surrounded by friends and family (some of whom traveled all the way from Poland to celebrate!) April and Paul began their forever together, it was such a perfect day and we were so happy to be a part of it!