The wedding and reception took place on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at Hacienda Doña Andrea de Santa Fe, a beautiful Southwestern style mansion located off NM-14 the mountains between Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
Our wedding video produced by Brandon Harwell is now available here!
We also setup a Google Photos album for guests to share their photos from the wedding.
Fall is a wonderful time to visit New Mexico! Here are a few events and activities that you might enjoy while visiting.
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, the largest hot air balloon event in the world, takes place in early October every year. The morning mass ascension involve hundreds of balloons rapidly taking off all around you from a 78 acre field. At evening balloon glows hundreds of balloons remain grounded and all fire their burners at the same time. It’s all quite spectacular!
The Sandia Peak Tramway is the longest aerial tram in the United States, connecting the northeast edge of Albuquerque with the top of the Sandia mountains. A quick 15 minute ride brings you to 10,378' for beautiful views and a network of hiking trails. Keep in mind that it can be significantly cooler at the top of the mountain, so consider bringing a sweater or jacket.
The Meow Wolf House of Eternal Return in Santa Fe is an explorable, immersive art installation filled with technology, and fantastic environments to inspire visitors of all ages. The House contains dozens of rooms, secret passages and interactive light and musical objects with which guests can play for hours or investigate the mystery of the Selig family, who disappeared one night after conducting a forbidden experiment inside their Victorian mansion. This place is amazing for adventurous kids and adults alike! And it’s where we had our second date.
Santa Fe has long been a center for arts and culture and ranks as the country’s third largest art market. You’ll find nearly 300 galleries and dealers to explore. We’ve got more than 200 restaurant choices ranging from our local New Mexican flavors to creative Southwestern cuisine to authentic world cuisines.
Madrid, NM, once a historic coal mining town and ghost town, is now a creative artists’ community with over 40 shops and galleries, several restaurants, a spa and museum.
Hello family and friends!
As some of you might know, when we got married, due to Marie’s various health issues, we knew that adoption was the only way for us to expand our family. None of the various adoption options that we pursued early in marriage worked out for us. Distraught and believing kids weren’t on the table for us, we set out to Oregon in 2021 so that Marie could embark on a career change, and to explore another part of the country. While in Oregon several kind and compassionate medical doctors informed us that embryo adoption, which we had been denied for in New Mexico, was actually an option. It took several years of convincing and then a bunch of logistical hurdles, but we are pleased to announce that we are expecting a baby boy in early September 2024!
The little guy is healthy, though we did have some scary complications during
weeks 10 through 19. After that we had a new complication come up but it has since resolved.
God has been faithful and we hope for a full term
and a safe delivery. Please keep baby boy in your prayers!
It is with sad hearts that we’ve made the decision to leave Oregon to head back to New Mexico. We left New Mexico in a very temporary configuration, figuring we’d only be in Oregon for at most 2 years, and as such need to head back. We will deeply miss all of our Oregon/Washington friends and strongly encourage each and every one of you to visit us in New Mexico!
For those that have asked about what Marie needs, here is her postpartum/labor list:
Tim & Marie were first introduced by a friend in 2014, but we were both too preoccupied with life to make anything of it. In 2015 we both ended up at the same tech conference in Portland, but again missed the opportunity to connect. In 2016 God finally had to take matters into His own hands; He orchestrated our teams at work to collaborate closely for a month and that’s when we finally noticed each other. Marie remembers thinking, “that guy really needs a girlfriend!” And Tim finally took notice of how amazing & interesting Marie was! After making up excuses to stop by her office regularly for a few weeks, he finally got up the courage to ask her out, and the rest is history!
Photo by Kristin Taylor.