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Right after the wedding, they left their jobs to backpack around Asia for 6 weeks. Its was an incredible adventure!

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Patrick and Joseph became engaged on April 30, 2016 and were married on May 28, 2017 at Bloomfield Farms (@bloomfieldevents) in Petaluma, California.

โ€œWe met on Tinder in June of 2014!โ€ says Patrick. โ€œJoe was living and teaching in San Jose and I was living and working at a non-profit in San Francisco. Joe was on a soccer team in San Francisco and would travel up to the city on weekends for games, which is how we came into each other’s Tinder orbit.โ€ On their second date, they had breakfast in Patrick’s neighborhood. โ€œWe got pastries and chocolate milk and had a picnic in Dolores Park and hung out there for hours,โ€ says Joe. โ€œThis date sealed the deal! We knew after that date that we were going to get married.โ€

Two years later, Patrick proposed by recreating that second date. Patrick’s friends bought the same chocolate milk and pastries, set up a blanket and picnic in Dolores Park, and Patrick “surprised” Joe by bringing him there on a Saturday morning. Turned out to not be much of a surprise. Patrick accidentally dropped clues for weeks!

โ€œWe got married over a long weekend and had all of our friends and family come out to California for the wedding. We pretty much had a week of activities, everything from Escape Rooms, to karaoke in SF’s Chinatown, picnics in SF, stand-up paddle boarding in Sausalito, and wine tasting in Sonoma. It was a complete blast. โ€œsays Patrick.

Right after the wedding, they left their jobs to backpack around Asia for 6 weeks. Its was an incredible adventure, from hiking and camping on the great wall of China to visiting Pulau Tiga, the location of season 1 of the show Survivor (Patrick is a HUGE fan). We made our way through China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines and then moved straight to Guadalajara, Mexico to teach,โ€ says Patrick. Joe’s teaching 4th grade and Patrick’s teaching 7th grade.

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