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The health and safety of our loved ones is our top priority. Our ceremony and reception will both take place outside. We ask if you're not yet vaccinated to consider doing so.
The health and safety of our loved ones is our top priority. Our ceremony and reception will both take place outside. We ask if you're not yet vaccinated to consider doing so.
September 18, 2021
Cincinnati, Ohio
#jonesing4joshua

Chelsea & Joshua

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Joshua Jones

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Chelsea Zesch

#jonesing4joshua

Cincinnati

Ohio

September 18

2021

How We Met

02.06.2016

Joshua and I met on February 6, 2016 after I had seen “If/Then” at the Aronoff with a friend and we ventured to OTR to try the famous chicken sandwich at The Eagle. An incredibly charismatic guy clad in flannel and a crooked Cincinnati Red’s hat mixed me the best Old Fashioned cocktail I’d tasted to date — his smile and the way he moved confidently behind the bar, chatting casually with customers caught my eye. When I shared my intrigue with my friend she urged me to leave my phone number on the receipt. He texted me the following Monday — I couldn’t believe it — and we talked for hours via text and call when he eventually asked me to drinks. Our date ended up happening sooner than planned when I was at happy hour later that week and he text me to join him at his local watering hole, Liberty’s in OTR. I was the most nervous as I've been, babbling away to the kind Uber driver who built me up and told me it’d be great. Needless to say, we went on many more dates. We enjoyed each other's company for the next four months until fear of our many differences made us call it quits. I thought constantly of our adventures, laughter, cooking together. When, nearly a year later, he asked me to lunch at a quaint pho restaurant on Court Street, I was over the moon. I remember him reaching for my hand as we walked back to his car. We rekindled our relationship, decided to celebrate our differences, and it was the start of forever.

The Proposal

04.12.2020

After a full month of quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, Joshua and I celebrated Easter with a homemade breakfast spread including Eggs Benedict, breakfast potatoes, and blanched asparagus salad. Little did I know, Joshua had something special in store (all because I announced that morning that I’d put on some makeup and real clothes that day; PJs have proven to be appropriate all-occasion wear during the pandemic). After breakfast, we played Bananagrams on the front porch and sipped vodka and flavored sodas. We were listening to music and dancing to french music when he went inside and turned on “A Million Dreams”, our favorite song from “The Greatest Showman.” We started dancing again and he suggested we dance on the front lawn…I agreed after some convincing and walked down our front steps to our yard where I saw my dad creeping around the corner with his camera. Joshua told me to ignore it and promptly got on his knee and started talking (really, at the time I didn’t hear what he said — I was busy smiling ear-to-ear like an idiot and didn’t know what to do). I remember him saying “if we can survive COVID together…” and something like “I’ve searched my whole life for you and I now I want to spend the rest of my life together with you..” and, naturally, “Chelsea Elizabeth Zesch, will you marry me?” and saying “YES!”, ever aware that my dad was still snapping photos from each possible angle of our quaint corner lot. After I said yes, I heard cheers, turning to see neighbors watching from their screened porch. My mom came around the corner with bottles (on bottles) of champagne and the four of us called friends and family from the porch, champagne in hand. Joshua later told me that he’d planned to propose on March 28th at Ault Park with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra accompanied by friends Chris and Laura to play the same song, “A Million Dreams.” Being two weeks into social distancing, the plan was canceled and Joshua weighed options to reschedule.

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