Cliff and Alison's Wedding

Cliff and Alison's story begins in late 2014, when both of them independently began to play a game called Ingress . Ingress challenges its players (called agents) to go to places in the real world to claim "portals" and link them together in the shape of a triangle to capture the territory inside for their factions (green team or blue team). These portals can take many forms, statues, murals, churches, libraries, and historical markers are some of the more common ones. But if you want to capture territory, it can be very helpful to find portals that are a bit harder for your opponents to reach, such as portals that require hiking some distance. The View From "Washington's Canal," a favorite portal for both Cliff and Alison At the time, Cliff had chosen the green team, and Alison had chosen the blue team. For over a year, without ever meeting and seldom communicating with each other, Cliff and Alison found themselves as natural rivals and opposite sides of a ...

It's a Covid wedding. As much as we wanted to be able to do this in a way that could include all of you on our big day, we decided that continuing to put it off was just getting silly, so we picked a date, pared the guest list down to the absolute minimum (our parents, my sister, Cliff's son, and my life-long best friend who is officiating), and found a place. We hope to be able to celebrate with all of you when Covid is no longer a concern, perhaps we can have a big party for our first anniversary next October. Thanks to my friend and coworker Chanae's suggestion, we have decided to do a live feed of the ceremony for anyone who wishes to join us. Please, no gifts. Your well-wishes are more than gift enough.