Emily will do a longer write up later but I wanted to share a link to the pictures that were taken by the Disney photographer.

The Collages.net site is located here.

We only got a few images but will be getting links to other folks galleries in short order.

A shot of the park from the far side of the pond.

This is the stone house where the shower itself will be happening. That blue tent isn’t part of the normal setup. They were setting up for a concert later that evening.

This is the “porch” section of the stone house.

And then the inside of the stone house.

The park also features a gazebo down by the pond where concerts and weddings are held.

The rest of the set has more shots of the park as well as its duck and goose residents.

While at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, I did a little bit of everything… I ended up in Management Information Systems but took something in pretty much every major. I continued my involvement with Robotics and joined a fraternity but spent the majority of my time in the Social Committee and Theatre organizations. Which is where I met my current roommate Tyler and Emily’s brother, Andrew.

After a disastrous experience on my final project at WPI, I returned home to Texas and spent some time working with my mother on a couple of small businesses and community theatre. Oh, and robotics. Can’t forget that.

While in Texas, my WPI friends here in Mass were constantly pushing me to return and eventually I listened and I got hired by a healthcare software company here in Boston.

These days, I play dodgeball, make short films and help out in the planning of the Boston FIRST regional. (Its a robotics competition

 I was born (along with my twin sister Stephanie who now lives in Maine and is a teacher who works with Autistic children) on December 31, 1981 to Amy and Mario Bisol in Worcester Mass. My brother Andrew, (who went to school with Jon at Worcester Polytechnic Institute now lives in Philadelphia and is an engineer) was born 3 years later and we all grew up in Fitchburg. My Mom was a stay at home mom and when I started Kindergarten she became a daycare provider and it was nice coming home to a house full of kids to play house with and run around playing tag with. Mom is now a Preschool Aide at a catholic school. My Father is part owner of Kesseli and Morse Company and sells tile, carpet and bricks commercially and residentially.

When I was a little girl I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up. That and Sleeping Beauty (thanks Dad for not letting me legally change my name to Princess Aurora when I was 6!) but I always wanted to work with children like my Mom did.

Since I was 7 I was involved in Soccer and Girl Scouts and was active in the Catholic Church. I went to Bright Beginnings, Goodrich Street School, South Street Elementary, Memorial Middle School and Fitchburg High School where I played Varsity Soccer all 4 years (though we weren’t that good) and during my senior year received my Girl Scout Gold Award as well as a Gold Key in the Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards.

For 2 summers I worked at the YMCA Camp Lowe and after I graduated high school I went to Framingham State College and Majored in Clothing and Textiles (Fashion Design). During my 4 years I was the President of Catholic Campus Ministry, the VP and President of Phi Upsilon Omicron (The Family and Consumer National Honor Society), I worked as a Student Admissions Representative in the Admissions Office as well as a secretary in The Office of the President.

I did my internship in The Boston Ballet Costume Shop and when I graduated they offered me a job in the shop for the summer and then I was hired full time as a seamstress. During my time at the ballet I made lots of tutus and helped build several new shows and did many side projects for The Opry Hotel, Houston Ballet as well as The Santa Fe Opera House. In the summer of 2005 I went to Santa Fe, New Mexico and worked at The Santa Fe Opera House as an apprentice.

In April of 2006 I left the ballet and became a Nanny for 2 little boys in Dedham. In the spring of 2007 I met Jon and I obviously fell in love with him and we started dating, in August I went to Paris (a huge dream of mine for a very long time!) and in December I started working with a new family on Beacon Hill and then in January Jon and I got engaged and so that’s the story from start to finish!

It’s longer than 3 paragraphs but it’s shorter than I thought it was going to be!

Once upon a time, my friend Tyler and I were in the market for a roommate and our mutual friend from WPI, a Mr. Andrew Bisol, mentioned that his big sister Emily was going to be in the market for an apartment. Andrew gave her Tyler’s email address and she emailed him but he was too busy to reply to the multi-page epic that she had sent to him.

I thought it was really funny that she had written this epic and so I had him forward it to me so I could reply. At first, it was regular roommate questions about the apartment and what we do and such as we tried to get our schedules to sync up so we all could get together.

After about a month and some 60+ multi-page emails, we finally met up and went out to eat mexican food at this little hole in the wall place on Mass Ave.

Shortly thereafter, we realized that we probably shouldn’t be roommates just yet. So we started dating and it was the best decision ever!  In case you were curious, we’ll officially be roommates next month.

(So for all the people who don’t want to read the long version of it I was told by many people that I should write a short version. Here it is…I needed a roommate, Jon was looking for a roommate, we wrote emails back and forth for a month, we met, decided we weren’t going to be roommates because we wanted to date each other, started dating 2 weeks later, fell in love, dated for 9 months then got engaged and in March we’ll be roommates!)

In September 2006 I moved into an apartment with my 2 roommate, Maggie and Nina in Dorchester. We all sat down the night we moved in and I was told that they would both be moving in with their boyfriends a year from then so I basically had to find a place to stay in September 2007.

When I was talking to my brother Andrew in November he told me about his friends from WPI named Tyler Leeds and Jon Abad who lived in Somerville and who might be looking for a new roommate in September 2007. I didn’t have internet access at that time because my laptop was old and so I told him when I had time in the spring I’d see about writing to them and seeing if they still needed a roommate.

So at that time I figured I had a long time to find a new apartment but once it hit March of 2007 I started to get nervous (yeah I know…I had 8 months to find an apartment but I wanted to be ready!) so I went out and bought a new laptop, called Andrew and got Tyler’s email and sent him an email to see if he still needed a roommate.

I got an email back a few days later from Tyler saying that he was busy at work and couldn’t really respond to my email at that time but he sent it on to Jon. So then a few days later I got an email from Jon and he said that the roommate position was still open and that we should meet to see if it was a good fit. So we planned to meet at the end of March.

He also answered all the questions I had asked in and Tyler about in the first email about the apartment and area and normal roommate questions. But then I had more and more questions and over the next few days he answered them all. So then I was curious…if we were going to possibly roommates one day who was Jon Abad, how did he know Andrew, what did he study at school and where did he come from.

I first wrote to Jon a few days before St. Patrick’s Day and when it finally came to the end of March it hit me one day that Jon and I had been writing back and forth to each other everyday for almost 3 weeks. I would wake up every morning and open an email from Jon and come home from work at night and send him an email back.

I’m not talking about like hey how was work, I’m doing good emails. Some times it would take me 3 hours to write them and would be several pages long, with everything from 20 questions to more detailed aspects of our lives and it never occurred to me that I was asking questions that were too personal because all along I was thinking these were questions that in being roommates I would find out anyways.

 So it surprised me when it came to be the date when I was going to be finally meeting Jon that I was so very nervous! Was it a date? Was it just a meeting? Would Jon be thinking it was a date? Why was I thinking it was a date when we never talked about it and we were just meeting to see if being roommates would be plausible? But I was nervous because I really liked Jon. He never made me feel stupid when I asked him questions about his job and things that I was curious about and he was really sweet in answering my 3 page emails all of the time and stayed up very late answering them all and every question I had so I could wake up to one in the morning.

When I got to Jon’s apartment I was surprised that Tyler was there but it was good because it kind of made things easier for Jon and I with someone else there and we could both play it off like it was just a roommate meeting and I wasn’t so worried. That’s a lie because of course I was worried and nervous and scared out of my mind but there was nothing I could do about it because after we all went to dinner and walked to Harvard Square and back I realized that as Jon and I were sitting in the bar waiting for Tyler to bring us our drinks that I was in love with him and so my fear at that time was is Jon going to want to see me again after this and we can’t be roommates because I want to spend more time with him and it would be bad if we were roommates.

But my fears disappeared when I got an email the next day from him wondering the same thing I was wondering…did I think it was a date and because Tyler was there was it really a date and did we want to go on a date and how was I thinking the night went? So then we decided to meet up again a week later. It was going to be our date but it’s not really a date but a pre date to see if we wanted to go on a first date and maybe date later. It wasn’t as complicated as it sounds like now but looking back we never really had a real first date that we can pinpoint as our first date so this was our first serious time out being Jon and Emily and not Emily the maybe roommate one day.

 And then it went from there. We started hanging out more often and decided that we couldn’t be roommates and we wanted to see where things went from then on. On April 15th Jon asked me to be his girlfriend and we’ve been together ever since. We spent Thanksgiving in Houston Texas with his family and had a great time then Christmas with my family. (We’ve had many other adventures together and apart…I went to Paris in August which was very hard because we had never been apart for more than 2 days and though I had a great time I missed him very much…but you can look at the pictures and see some of those adventures).

So from the beginning I knew that I was going to marry Jon. My mom always said when you know you know and I knew the moment I met Jon, even before as we were writing back and forth but I didn’t know it then, that he was the one for me. I haven’t kept it a secret from Jon that I’ve wanted to spend the rest of my life with him and up until January of 2008 he never said anything to me until we were talking one day about my healthcare and he told me that he wanted to marry me and I was so happy and excited and

One day (January 12th) we were out shopping and I asked Jon what was one of the things he really wanted to do this year. Last year we had planned on going to Disney World this year but because I changed jobs we weren’t going to be able to do it until September. So as I was thinking about it that night while making dinner I thought well why don’t we get married in Disney? Jon and I had talked about a small wedding, we both love Disney and it would be so easy to have our wedding there.

Again I was nervous to ask Jon because I was basically asking him to marry me and jumping the gun but I couldn’t help myself and I asked him what he thought. He loved the idea and so later that night Jon asked me to marry him and of course I said yes and then the next day we called our families, checked out the Disney Wedding’s website and by Monday, January 14th had the wedding booked for Friday, September 19th at the Sea Breeze Resort in Disney World!!!!  

 I love Jon so very much. He means so much to me and he’s such a special guy! He makes me laugh and is very supportive, he can cook, (more than just mac and cheese from a box and cereal!), he’s a great listener, he pushes me to be my very best when I need a little push because I’m a little stubborn (OK maybe I’m very stubborn) and he makes me so happy! I’m really blessed that I found Jon and I’m going to be spending my life with him.

 So that’s about enough from me! I know it was long…but that’s my story from start to finish. Thanks for sharing this very special moment with us!

Emily