cyd.
Cyd is a native of a small city in upstate New York along Lake Ontario, having graduated just after the new millennium and then heading off to attend architecture school in the Southern Tier region of New York State. From there, she received her MBA from St. Bonaventure University, and somewhere along the way fell in love with weddings…which worked out quite well when it came time to plan her own. A lover of the water, traveling, and good wine, she has also coordinated weddings for several other brides and is active on the wedding blogosphere, with plans to keep blogging well into old age. Like Mike, you cannot seem to tear a good book out of her hands. She is in love with all things paper, stationery, letterpress, photography, architecture, and honing her culinary skills to one day take on the world on The Next Food Network Star. During the day, you can find her hanging out in the old John Deere warehouse turned studios of her favorite letterpress print shop where she routinely drools over the latest and greatest designs coming off the press.
mike.
Mike hails from a small town in southwestern New York, where he returned after college to teach English and coach baseball and football. After six years, he met Cyd and moved north with her to work for a small Central New York school district, where he currently teaches eighth grade and continues to coach. Having been influenced by Cyd’s nonstop chatter about the lake, Mike now enjoys the water now more than ever, and revels in paddling laps around his new wife when kayaking. He hopes to become a published author in the near future and can often be found muttering to himself as he dreams up plot-lines while tackling mundane household tasks such as laundry and tending to the dog’s latest whims. He is eternally devoted to the Buffalo Bills, the Atlanta Braves, and takes pleasure in annoying Cyd with his constant flicking of channels to ESPN during any and every television-viewing session. He also enjoys eating so it works out great that Cyd loves to cook.
the meeting.
While at school in the Southern Tier, Cyd became close friends with Mike’s younger brother, Andy, and his future wife, Becky. She didn’t know Mike even existed at the time. In the summer of 2007, Andy and Becky were married. Mike was Andy’s best man, and Cyd, Becky’s maid of honor. Need more be said?
The official first words between the two were exchanged on a wine tour bus as part of the pre-wedding festivities. Cyd had coincidentally been working with Mike’s school district as part of an MBA project, and she dropped this information within earshot of him, much to his surprise. He had to turn around and ask her about it, and thus, history was made. The obligatory photos of the wedding party taken that day meant that photographic evidence of the day they first met would be had forever. The wine, of course, helped the conversation to continue throughout the day, as it should, and Mike and Cyd became the Mike and Cyd blogging for you today.
the children.
The black cat, loved by Mike and loathed by Cyd, was rescued by Mike when he was a kitten…well after Cyd had confided in Mike her lack of affection for cats in general. Being in possession of an English teacher, said cat was named Twain, after the master of superstition and social ills, Mark Twain. Him and his oddly nubbed tail continue to prosper to this day.
Nina, the black Lab, can both snuggle like a child and eat like a horse. Her human-like qualities are not like those of other dogs, and she can understand necessary English. “Food,” “Walk,” “Chicken Parmesan and Mich Light.” She is amazingly patient with the sordid Twain, who regularly swats her tail like a petulant child and runs away shrieking. Nina follows, ice skating on her claws across the kitchen. So go the lives of the “kids.”
{All photos not otherwise credited are copyright of Cyd Converse. Please credit if using photos for any reason. Thanks! To lead by example, the above photo was taken by our esteemed wedding photographer, James Bass.}
