We met in 2009, at a backpacker hostel in Amsterdam. We hit it off immediately, bonding over our love of Gauguin and jazz. We had a magical time together in France during Anya’s first year at grad school, and we both knew it was time. We were engaged in March 2014, and now we’re getting married!

It was last October and we’d decided to have a halloween party, just a small one as far as I was
concerned. But Joshua said we should invite my family as well as his family – having such a close
family I didn’t think anything of it. Then he kept saying we should get some costumes from a fancy
dress website, and get contacts and make a big thing out of it. We ended up spending the whole day
decorating the house with cobwebs, spiders, along with various light bulbs – flickering candles, r
ed bulb and UV light bulbs and making some amazing pumpkins.