Roy & Concetta
Casey
Shane
Haley
This is the story of two people who have only begun their journey together through the trials and tribulations of life. Our journey began September 2, 2007, when the "infamous motorcycle ride" took place on a brisk fall night leading our souls to be joined for the rest of our days. We met by chance since I attended a BBQ at Concetta's house with mutual friends on a last minute invitation. Concetta asked me to take her for a ride on my motorcycle that night (even though a guy she was seeing was also at this BBQ). The next day, I called her and we went out on the bike again to have lunch. From that day forward we were never apart again.
The next few months would feel like a new age version of speed dating as we got to know each other as if we were being helped along by someone or something. By the third month into the relationship I knew Concetta was the woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with so I made preparations for the proposal.
November 17, 2007, Nunzio's Ristorante in Collingswood, NJ is the place and a packed (supposed to private)room is the setting. I already met with Nunzio earlier that day and gave him the engagement ring which we had planned would be placed into her dessert tray. Dinner was over, Concetta was ready to go and I was nervous and they brought out the dessert with the ring placed neatly in the gelato. She begged me not to do it in front of the room full of people but, as nervous as I was, I got down on my knee and asked her to marry me in front of about seventy people.
The next six months would fly by with furious wedding planning and scrambling to get the funds together for our destination ceremony. May 18, 2008, we were married on the dock of the bay at the Chesapeake Beach Resort in Maryland. Our wedding day went by in a flash and just as my wife said a thousand times when we argued about the cost of the photographer... the only thing we have left to remember that day is the pictures.
The day after we got married we drove home from Maryland unloaded our stuff and went right out to buy ourselves a wedding present. Along came "Casey." We picked up Casey from a rescue in Oxford and he has truly been the best and the worst dog either of us have ever had. Casey has so many issues that make him special needs but we wouldn't trade him for any normal animal in the world. During the first few months we had him he managed to ring up $1,500 in vet bills and crap on every single inch of a 4x4 crate. Since then he has swallowed the heads from multiple toys, developed Pancreatic Inefficiency, and managed to bust open his tail so bad that we had to have it amputated. Again, this dog costs mucho bucks but he is worth so much more then he runs us.
We have two cats that have a ton of personality and make it their sole purpose to mess with the dog every day. The only problem is that there is a power struggle between the two cats as well so there is no real cats vs dog hierarchy in the house. It's pretty much every animal for itself which leads to some pretty interesting early morning wakeups with the cats hissing and Casey flying down the stairs. Yes, it is a zoo but it's our zoo.
So almost four years has passed since we got married and we are still in Love. The pictures continue to pile up by the thousands and I'm running out of wall space. This website will now serve as additional wall space to help share our story and keep the holes out of my walls.
