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Lisa + Jay have one of the most remarkable proposal stories I’ve ever heard: Lisa thought Jay did not have a passport. (Which was true — until very recently!) She also had no reason to suspect he was not back home in Baltimore when she and her two daughters flew to Aruba for a girls’ trip. So you can imagine Lisa’s surprise when she and her daughters were eating dinner on the beach after a daylong island tour and saw her love emerging from the woods. He dropped to one knee, pulled out a spectacularly sparkly ring and asked her to marry him. Her response: “But you don’t have a passport!” It turns out that he secretly acquired his international travel documents, arranged the oceanside dinner for Lisa and her daughters, answered all the TSA’s anticipated questions about his very short trip to Aruba with no luggage and hopped on a plane, all for the carefully orchestrated proposal. He then almost immediately returned to the airport for his flight back to Baltimore because he didn’t want to impose upon Lisa’s time with her girls. Such is life for these two! They’re incredibly thoughtful with each other. They love adventuring together. And their joy together is palpable. When Lisa returned home and managed to catch her breath after the surprise of a lifetime, she and Jay looked at their calendar. They discovered that their five daughters in their beautiful blended family — including one in the Army who was about to ship out to Korea — would all be in town in just a couple of days and then not again for two whole years. Naturally, they decided to plan a wedding in just a couple of days so that their girls and their own parents could all attend. It was nothing but joy to spend these couple of hours with Lisa + Jay and their immediate families! Here are some favorites from their very beautiful, very tiny Baltimore wedding.⁠