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The story of how Ava & Jack met and fell in love.
It all started in Santa Cruz, 2017.


Ava & Jack met one fateful day in Santa Cruz, CA. Ava had just started her second year as a Cognitive Science major at UC Santa Cruz and moved into her dorm room on campus. At the time Jack was living in San Francisco, just 2 hrs north of Santa Cruz.

The infamous Sean Hallett however, was also starting a new year of study at UCSC and had moved into the apartment right across the hall from Ava.

It turned out that Sean and his friends had moved into the two dorm apartments together for the new shcool year, and they had one open spot in the apartments so a random person was placed as the 16th person. That random person was Ava.

University of California, Santa Cruz - Cowell College
Board games at the boy's apartment, 2017
Ava, Jack, and friends in Santa Cruz, 2018
Jack would travel down to Santa Cruz to visit Sean and his other friends and eventually started traveling down to spend time with Ava.

They got to know eachother through board games, EDM concerts, conversations on Sean's giant bean bag chair, house parties, and all the other chaos that goes on with a group of 18 UCSC college kids.

Jack and Ava became great friends. They matched eachother's energy and were equally talented at beerpong. Their connection was instant but it wasn't until June of 2018 that they officially started dating.

Soon after they started dating, the schoolyear ended and Ava moved to a different part of the UCSC campus for the summer. Jack continued to drive down to spend time with Ava over the summer while she was working at the UCSC greenhouses.



Pure chaos and shenanegans.
Jack at work on Facetime with Ava
The first date.

On their first date, Jack took Ava to a cute little restaurant in Downtown Santa Cruz - Oswald. They had a great time, ate delicious food and sipped refreshing cocktails. Little did they know, that was the beginning of many dinner dates to come.
Jack on our first date!
...followed by many more amazing, wonderful, fantastic dinner dates.
San Francisco.

Over the summer of 2018 Jack and Ava's love for eachother grew. Jack drove down to Santa Cruz every other day to spend time with her. When he wasn't visiting, all Ava could think about was Jack. Despite school starting in the fall, Ava decided to follow her heart, and she move to San Francisco to be closer to Jack at the end of summer 2018.

They lived in Jack's apartment with two of his best friends until they moved into their own apartment in December of 2018.

They so much fun together but they went through a lot.

Jack had a gaming habit, Ava bought a motorcycle, Jack learned what football was, there was a global pandemic, the Metaverse became a thing, and they learned that, between the two of them, they had little-to-no cooking skills in the kitchen.

It wouldn't be until 2022 that they would think about moving out of SF, to a new home.
Themed parties
Murder Mystery Night
Meeting family
Jack & Ava having ramen with Ava's Grandparents
Jack and Ava's sister Robin
Ava & Jack at brunch with the siblings
On our way to have lunch with Jack's step-mom
Ava's Mom teaching Jack some yoga moves
Ava's brother teaching Jack how to load a rifle
Jack and Ava's brother
Meeting Rambo.

In July, 2019 Jack and Ava drove 8 hours round trip up to Eureka, in northern California to pick up the little nugget of a french bulldog known as Rambo.

Rambo was a sweet puppy who was a little shy and a little crazy. If you know you know.

Rambo grew up on Polk street in San Francisco. Ava and Jack got Rambo when they lived above a grouchy old attorney lady and then moved 2 blocks down the street a year later to live above a 2 Michilin star restaurant, Aquerello.

Rambo brought them much joy and happiness. He was a little cuddle bug that always had the funniest expressions. It turns out, Rambo's only-child days were his glory days because on the roadtrip back from their Telluride Family reunion trip they picked up another little creature named Benny.
One of our first pictures with Rambo
Rambo's first visit to the park
Ava and Rambo's god-father (the one and only) David Drexler
Add one more to the mix - Benny joins the family
Benny and Jack's Mom out at Brunch
Benny and his god-father Sean Hallett
Jack and Ava's memories of San Francisco include many memories of the adventures they shared with their friends - memories of the tahoe trips, house parties, nights out, escape rooms and park days, are memories that would not have been as special if they were not surrounded by friends.
The memories.
On our way to Golden Gate Park
Tahoe trip grocery run
Drinks with friends
Escape room night
House party at the Turk St. House in SF
A new home.

After living in San Francisco for nearly four years, Ava and Jack started to think about moving to a new city. They wanted to buy real estate and have space for the dogs to romp and frolic. They loved San Frnacisco but had started to outgrow it.

They traveled to many cities far and wide, large and small to see if anything would compare to their fog city paradise. They visited Seattle, Denver, Missoula, Los Angeles, Los Vegas, and Portland. It even got to the point where they were considering Phoenix, Arizona and some random town in Ohio.

Dispite their effort, every town they traveled too just didn't connect with their hearts like San Francisco had.

That was, until they visited Nahsville. Nashville stole their hearts instantly and they ended up moving to music city only one month after visiting it for the first time.

Taken during our first trip to Nashville
On our way to visit Nashville for the first time!
Ava's Mom visits Nashville
Moving into our first (rented) house in Nashville
Space Prom!
Ava's Mom visits Ava and Jack at their first apartment in Nashville
Jack, Ava and dogs say goodbye to empty SF apartment
Jack and Benny proud of our Nashville patio garden
Ava and the dogs working from empty SF apartment right before they fly off to Nashville
Jack and dogs check out rug in first Nash apartment
Saying bye to the Subaru before its long roadtrip to TN
Thanksgiving dinner with the fam in Nash
Brunch with Jack's Mom in Nashville

The future.

In January of 2023 Jack and Ava booked their tickets to Ireland.

Ava already knew that Jack had a ring and Jack already knew that Ava would say yes.

They told their family and friends that they were going on a birthday trip for Ava's birthday and then started to throw together the few essential things they needed to get married.

They were excited, and a little bit scared but ultimately followed their hearts to the emerald isle. They got little Benny and Rambo booked to board in Nahsville and packed their bags.
Ava made sure to pack her two wedding dresses in her carry-on bag. She told Jack that even if Air Canada managed to loose their bags they would still be able to have a perfect elopement but she would only have two things to wear the whole trip... the short dress and the long dress.

Jack and Ava took a plane to NYC and then over to Ireland. They landed, hopped in their rental car, and then drove to Galway.

Ava slept through all the flights and Jack drove the car bravely on the left side of the road.

After a long journey they made it to Ashford castle safe and sound and were married just two days later.
To be continued...
Cellebrate with us Summer 2024, Nashville TN!

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Ava & Jack Stone
P.O. Box #40924
Nashville, TN