Ana and Lewis met through their mutual friend Caleb at a party in downtown Detroit in December 2020. Lewis knew Caleb through the Detroit Rugby Football Club. Ana knew Caleb from the Grand Circus Dog Park, also in Detroit, where their dogs were frequent visitors. 

Caleb invited Lewis to a party attended by fellow dog park parents, since Lewis happened to be in the neighborhood that evening. Shortly after his arrival, Ana questioned Lewis as to why he was there without a dog, who invited him, who he knew there, etc. Somehow, Lewis found this interrogation charming, and he later asked for Ana’s phone number. The rest is history!

Lewis and Ana got engaged in Amsterdam in May 2024, shortly before their visit to Lewis' hometown of Manchester, UK. It was Lewis’ first visit back home in 10 years! Surprising his extended family in person with their happy news, and sharing this joy all together, made it a beautiful and memorable time for both of them. They had so much fun that they decided to get married in the UK so everyone could get all together again, and here we are!


Of course, never ones to say no to an excuse to throw a party, Ana and Lewis will also be celebrating back home in the U.S.: with Ana's family for a traditional Serbian Orthodox church ceremony (the same church where Ana's parents were married in 1989), and then with their friends in Detroit.

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