Jamie is originally from Vestal, NY but spent 4 years away from civilization in the south double majoring in Public Policy and Russian at Duke University. It was during her 4 years at Duke that she discovered rugby and her talent for tackling and trash talking. She also spent lots of time in the Russian Department thinking of bad Stalin jokes and reminiscing about her days abroad. She is currently a graduate student at Georgetown University working on a Master’s degree in International Policy and Development.  Her focus is on  gender issues and public health in the former Soviet Union.  Jamie likes bubble baths, the color blue, and small dogs named Smidgen.

Cody's Story

Cody also grew up in Vestal, but further out in the hills where the cows roam. He spent four years at Duke University trying to help his roommate pick up girls and attempting to make his fellow engineers go out on the weekends. Now he is the ultimate engineer and is studying for his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in experimental fluid mechanics and spends most days playing with huge laser beams and trying to beat his advisor at addictive computer games. His work can best be described to non-engineers as "hard." Besides Jamie, the great loves of Cody's life are coffee and bagels - in that order.

Our Story
 

   We met during high school when Jamie was a freshman and Cody was a sophomore, but we both disliked each other at the time and generally avoided each other for several years. Then during Cody's senior year we had AP Bio together and eventually became friends because Jamie set Cody up with her best friend for a big school dance. (oops) Later that year we both spent lots of time being big dorks in Science Olympiad. True love was manifested back in AP Bio when we were lab partners for the ever exciting fruit fly mating lab. We eventually started dating just after Cody graduated from Vestal High School and have been pretty inseparable ever since.  We were engaged November 8, 2003 - so we have been planning for this wedding shindig for more than a year!