June 22nd, 2024*
Masseria Calderisi
Puglia, Italy
We’re getting married in Puglia! Come celebrate and vacation with us in a place so close to our hearts. Giovanni’s family still proudly calls Puglia home, and with a last name like Puglisi, Anastasia is meant to be here.
Yes, we met in high school, say sometime between the ages of 16 and 18. We bonded instantly over music and dancing (we were always party in Puglia people), and a baby crush developed.
Let’s set the record straight, Giovanni clearly followed Anastasia to LA. Six months after she moved west in 2014, Giovanni took a leap of faith and moved as well, knowing no one in town but Anastasia. The friendship continued to blossom, especially when Giovanni moved in with our mutual best friend, Brent.
It’s 2019, we’re both single, and maybe a bit flirtatious, but continue to insist that “we’re just friends”. We decided to go to a Dodgers game. We’re enjoying the game when we get ambushed by the Kiss Cam camera operator. Our pleas for him to go away were fully ignored, and so we went for it. That was it!
Life has been pretty sweet ever since. We moved into our Frogtown home together in 2020, became engaged in April of 2022, and now can’t wait to get married and start the next chapter of our lives!