SARASTEVEKENNEDY

How Sara and Steve met is an epic story spanning years of paths crossing and uncrossing, opportunities approaching and just missing and finally, connecting. Many of you might not know how far back we go… well, it was 1992 and Sara began attending Long Beach State. Steve was there too, changing majors… again. Steve’s family had been in Long Beach for generations and Sara’s parents met at CSULB. But for Sara and Steve, even though they could have walked right past each other many times, fate would make them wait. After Steve graduated, he got a job at Daniel L. Paulson Productions. A few years later, he hired an intern from his alma mater that had a girlfriend named Sara Pachacki. Sara would join the boys from the office for lunch and, everybody becoming a friendly group, ended up going on group outings to movie premieres, Disneyland and weekend trips to Las Vegas. Being in the same circle, Steve met Sara’s mom, Georgia, Sara met Steve’s dad, Vernon, and they interacted a lot. Fate, somehow understanding that the two weren’t quite ready yet, intervened again and Sara and Steve took separate paths, occasionally thinking about each other and wondering, but nothing happened until eight years later in a Los Angeles deli called Canters. For a span of several months in 2011, Steve had been going to Canters every Wednesday night with his friend Jeffrey while Sara was also frequenting there on Wednesdays with a group of friends. There, one Wednesday at the cash register, hardly able to believe her eyes, Sara uttered, “You’re Steve, right?” The rest is pretty well documented on Facebook as most all of you can attest to. Maybe not the first date to the Spanish Kitchen but the second date, which lasted 12 hours and where Steve first put the moves on, is there as is pretty much everything else they’ve done as they’ve discovered they have so many shared interests. Also, they figured out that Fate had been conspiring to get them together sooner. In March of 2011, they both attended pre-Oscar events, went to Kate Mantalini’s on the same day and they both attended the Dodgers game on Independence Day. Not wanting to risk Fate pulling them apart for another eight years, Sara and Steve decided to take their future in their own hands and moved in together in February of 2013. Three months later, they took a magical trip to Hawaii. On May 3rd, the two spent an entire day driving around the island of Oahu. They saw beautiful scenery, amazing blue water; they found a rope swing on a beach, picked a spot on the North Shore to enjoy the sun and ended up meeting some butterflies; they swam with turtles and then, around sunset, took a walk. On a romantic and deserted strip of beach near the westernmost point of the island, just as the sun touched the water, Steve proposed and Sara said yes. A little more than a year later, you’ll be joining us as we exchange vows. As we both love the ocean, we’ll be doing it in style aboard the luxury yacht Majestic in Newport Beach Harbor. It will be a day to remember, and a lot of fun, as we are known to have, and we’re glad you’ll be sharing it with us.