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This is where my family began.

My parents met at Brown University and were married at Manning Chapel 35 years ago. When Mr. Seashell and I began talking about marriage I honestly didn’t have a vision of where we would exchange our vows. But when Mama Seashell said, “What do you think about getting married about Manning?” I was immediately in love with the idea.

Getting married at Manning Chapel not only feels special because it is the place where my parents were married, but it feels like inheriting a legacy. To walk literally where my parents walked years before feels beautifully symbolic. I have been fortunate enough to have a strong and loving marriage modeled to me throughout my development. To stand in the very place where that marriage was born - and create my own - feels like a gift.

There will be guests present who witnessed my parents exchange vows in the very same place. They may sit in the very same seats. Thirty five years will have passed, but the sentiment is the same. They witnessed the beginning of a new family.

This is where my family began. This is where my family will begin again.

{Here’s a photo of me inside the chapel circa 1985}

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