After being professional wedding guests for the last 4 1/2 years, it's finally our turn!

From our first date having drinks out of the trunk of Chris' car in front of the Cyclone in Coney Island due to Covid restrictions, to endless nights of Netflix & cocktails with Frankie the cat, to experiencing the world slowly open back up & finding our new "normal" as a couple.... We have certainly had an unconventional start to our life together.

Despite the initial adversity, we only became closer & stronger spending so much time isolated together (when we didn't want to Stone Cold Stun each other), and when the world opened back up, we created so many memories and experiences together.

We truly became best friends. With our goofy, weird sense of humor, absolutely awkward personalities, and endless things we have in common (sometimes we actually share the same brain), we realized there really is no other person we'd rather do life with. So, together with Franklin, we became the silly little family that we are.

And it was only fitting that when Chris proposed in the dreamiest of dreams, Baha Mar, I was obliviously trying to drag him behind me by the arm, while he struggled to get the ring box out of his pocket, and a man screaming at us to rent a jet ski.

So we welcome you all to share in all the crazy, awkwardness that is our life & love, and finally celebrate US! We have waited a long time for this day to come, and we can't wait to celebrate with you!

Ivelisse & Chris

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