Flying in
Fly into Medellín’s José María Córdova International Airport (MDE) in Rionegro, the closest airport to La Ceja. [Add drive time to the venue.]
Our Story
How it all began
From a dance floor in San Jose to the green hills of Antioquia.
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San Jose, California
One dance
We met in San Jose, and no, it wasn’t at a hospital, even though Trinique is a physical therapist and Juan Pablo is an anesthesia and pediatrics resident. It happened on a dance floor: Juan Pablo, bad dance moves and all, worked up the courage to ask Trinique to dance.
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Sunnyvale ↔ Oakland
Across the Bay
That dance turned into dates, even though Juan Pablo lived in Sunnyvale and Trinique lived in Oakland, with most of the Bay Area in between.
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San Francisco
Home
Eventually Juan Pablo moved closer to San Francisco, with a not-so-secret plan to get Trinique to leave Oakland. It worked: today we call San Francisco home together.
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Our family
And Amie
Home also means Amie, our seven-year-old Shiba Inu and our most loyal travel companion. She has camped with us in Yosemite, joined our late-night runs to Dandelion Chocolate for hot chocolate and cookies, flown to the East Coast to see family, and followed us all the way to Colombia.
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Easter 2026
Growing in faith
Along the way, we’ve grown in our faith together while preparing for the sacraments, and Juan Pablo was confirmed at Easter 2026.
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Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park
The question
Surrounded by flowers at the Conservatory of Flowers, Juan Pablo asked Trinique to marry him, and she said yes. He had planned every detail in secret. A month earlier, he asked her parents for their blessing in Vietnamese. He built the ring himself, in a toi et moi design, French for “you and me”: two stones side by side, like our two very different cultures coming together. And because nothing matters more to Trinique than having the people she loves close, he arranged for her best friends to fly in and for both families to join on FaceTime, all without her knowing. In every detail, she felt how much he loved her.
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La Ceja, Antioquia
The next chapter
On September 25, 2027, we’ll be married in La Ceja, in the green hills of Antioquia, and we would love for you to be there.
