How did you meet your husband? How did he propose?

Ryan and I met when we were 19 years old at Boston College. Mutual friends brought us together and it didn’t take us long to start formally dating when he showed up at my family home the summer after our freshman year to meet my very traditional Italian family and ask their blessing to date their daughter. We dated from that point on (10 years), through undergrad, internships, first jobs, first apartments, etc — truly growing up together until one day (under the guise of dinner with friends) he took me to the roof of our apartment building (our first home together) and popped the question. He had dressed up the space with roses, candles and proposed with the backdrop of Boston at sunset behind us (the city we met and grew up in together).

How did it feel when you put on your dress the day of the wedding? What was everyone's reaction to the dress?

The dress was dazzling to everyone in the room — it glistened like a diamond in the sunlight as I stood on the balcony in the late afternoon sun (perfectly fitting the ambiance of our dreamy Italian backdrop). My mother began bawling her eyes out, completely overtaken by emotion.