Kate and Alexa Wedding – Bridal Portrait – New York Botanical Garden – Susan Stripling Photography

After matching on Hinge, Katie and Alexa had their first date at the height of the pandemic –sitting on a blanket in Madison Square Park, sharing a bottle of wine from six feet apart. As they talked, they discovered their connection went back further than they realized – Alexa had met Katie’s brother, Matt, on the very first day of freshman year at the University of Miami. After graduation, they both moved to New York City, where Katie was already living, and worked at the same company for several years. Matt would often text Alexa while dog-sitting for Katie, asking, “Want to hang out with my sister’s dog?” – knowing how much she loved pups. “My dog was a huge part of my life,” Katie shares. “Sadly, he passed away before we actually met. But the fact that Alexa had known and loved him while he was alive was deeply meaningful.” Their relationship deepened over the following months through frequent texts and a handful of in-person dates, as Alexa was dividing her time between New York and her parents’ home in Massachusetts. After she moved to NYC permanently in late summer, it was only a matter of weeks until they became an official couple.
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