How we got here
It started right here in Fort Lauderdale, at a barbecue that was supposed to be a quick workday lunch. A mutual friend made the introduction, and it didn't take long to discover we had two great loves in common: really good barbecue and the Florida Gators. That lunch turned into a lifetime of shared plates and game days. Every year we make the pilgrimage to a Gators football game together, a tradition we wouldn't miss for anything. (Yes, that's us with a gator in the photo. Chomp chomp.)
This city runs through both of our stories. Lawrence's career began here — first internship, first job at BlackBerry — and he's called Fort Lauderdale home ever since college. Elaine has spent her career quite literally building it: more than a decade as a construction project manager, first at Pirtle Construction and now Balfour Beatty, with projects rising all around Pier 66 — from the Port Everglades cruise terminals to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. So getting married on this waterfront means celebrating in the middle of a skyline we know by heart — including pieces of it that Elaine helped build.
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