30 Letters, 3 Continents, 1 Finish Line

Let’s start by addressing the obvious elephant in the room - why is a wedding website called “The Last Weekend of The Long Way Home?”

We admit it sounds a bit like a 2008 indie-rock album (and anyone who knows the song Stolen by Dashboard Confessional may find this strangely familiar), but there is a very specific reason those words became the sentiment for this entire wedding.

When your relationship has spanned three continents, multiple time zones, and too many logins to immi.gov.au to count, the road ahead sometimes looks impossibly long. For the better part of our history, we spent our time apart, putting in a ridiculous amount of effort just to get to each other.

Yes, Antoine has been on Australian soil for just over year now, and the literal distance is finally in the rearview mirror. But when you spend years fighting just to share a zip code, you don’t just quietly unpack your bags.

So this weekend on the Mornington Peninsula? This is our victory lap. We are gathering the people (you!) who helped us survive the miles to officially retire that chaotic route, step into marriage, and start the next great adventure together - building our home and future together.