Eleonora and Aaron in their first apartment together.

Eleonora & Aaron

are getting married in Rome

June 13th, 2026

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We do not have a registry, but we will gratefully accept contributions to our honeymoon/wedding/first house/impending global economic correction fund (click here for how). But please don’t feel obligated!

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Eleonora and Aaron sitting at Spiaggia Le Saline in Sardinia.

This is the first picture of us together. We took it at Spiaggia Le Saline, in Sardinia. In true Italian style, we brought foil containers of home-made lasagna to eat on the beach. The water was a forest of seaweed that day.

Eleonora and Aaron at O Cais das Colunas in Lisbon.

After I told Ele that I gave the relationship “a 30% chance of continuing” after I got back to the US, I nonetheless invited her to join me for the last part of my summer in Lisbon.

Eleonora grimacing after a sip of coffee next to the Boston Commons.

The intervening three months is still the longest that we have been apart since we met. At some point between Lisbon and Thanksgiving, Ele decided to fly to the east coast in November for a visit. Here she is tasting an American coffee at a cafe on the Boston Commons.

Eleonora and Aaron sitting on the couch at the Benedettis.

At some point between Thanksgiving and June, I decided to move to Rome. On June 21st, Ele picked me up at the airport, drove me to lunch with her family (this is their couch), and then we went to sign our new apartment lease, where I almost kissed the realtor, Francesco, on the mouth because I was still getting the hang of which cheek comes first.

Eleonora and Aaron riding a bus from Tirana to Gjirokastër, Albania.

What came next was about 9 months of flying back-and-forth between the US and Rome while I coaxed the Consolato Generale d’Italia a Los Angeles into giving me a visa valid for longer than 3 months. At one point, Ele met me in Tirana, Albania where I was hiding out from Schengen Zone authorities. This is us on a bus from there to Gjirokastër.

Eleonora and Aaron moments after getting engaged.

We got engaged on January 4th at the botanical garden in Rome. There was a plaque on the bench where I proposed that said something to the effect of, “Love at the wrong time is inopportune.” After the proposal, we ate the most mediocre pasta carbonara of our lives.

Thanks to the logistical challenges of a US-Italy marriage, we got to celebrate our engagement with four separate parties: with family in Rome, friends in Rome, friends in LA, and family in LA.