Ravello · Amalfi Coast · July 2018
This chapter is private. If you were there, you'll know the word.
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Ravello · Amalfi Coast · July 26, 2018
Jason proposed to Megan in the artists' village of Deià in Mallorca, nestled between the Serra de Tramuntana and the Mediterranean below. The proposal was six months in the making, marking the end of a whirlwind tour of India, Italy, and Spain, and the beginning of a lifelong adventure together.
"All my life I've been looking for a true partner, an equal in all things to love, cherish, and build a life with. You have proven to me that you are the one."
"You have changed everything. You have re-taught me how to live, how to love, how to inspire, and how to be a better person. You are more than my equal, you are my better half."
We met at a film screening four years ago in New York City, and after a nine hour date the next day, the rest was history. We've been building our companies and traveling the world together ever since!
We are tied together by the ability to bring out the best and most authentic versions of one another. Our shared passion for positively impacting society through aligned, mission-driven businesses. Our wanderlust for new adventures. Our mutual love of snuggles, sandwiches, and silliness. Our desire to create and celebrate things of beauty and impact in the world.
We are most looking forward to a lifetime together filled with love, laughter, purpose, and wonder.
Falling in love with you has been the greatest joy of my life. You've opened my eyes to a world more beautiful and full of possibility than I had ever dared to dream. Standing here with you on our wedding day, I am for once at a loss for words, for no words can truly describe the depth of our partnership and the purity of the trust we place in one another, as keepers of shared dreams, deep passions, and gentle hearts.
They say that love begins with a metaphor. For me, it happened four years ago, in that small French cafe on Thompson Street whose name we can never seem to remember, when ten million stars lit up the sky, and I was struck by the realization that it was you with whom I'd move the world. Some people meet and stay strangers forever, but you were familiar from the start. I didn't know at the time that ours would grow into such a beautiful love, but I knew with great certainty that I'd found the other half of my soul and that we'd build something wonderful together.
As time passes by, that feeling has blossomed into the most special and sacred of bonds I've ever known. Our love is gentle, caring, and true. It knows no fear, no jealousy, no strife. It's a safe haven of truth in the midst of an ever-changing, complicated world. No matter where we are, or how things go, my constant is, and always will be, you.
You, with your kind eyes and innate goodness that brings out the goodness in me. You, with your boundless curiosity and brilliant intellect, who can speak with the same passion and depth of knowledge about capital market dynamics as you can about the fantasy worlds of anime or the nutritional benefits of superfoods. You, with your generosity and understanding, who embraces my personal growth and all its ups and downs with unwavering patience and a guiding hand. You, who believes in the dreams I keep hidden inside of me and helps them become our shared reality. You, whose unconditional love inspires and uplifts me, and fills me with wonder at its infinite possibilities.
Today, as we celebrate the eternal bond of our love, I promise to be the same to you:
You are my truest partner in life, and my better half in everything. You are the person I love and cherish most, who reignited and permanently fuels my most positive ambitions for this world. I cannot imagine a life without you, or wait to see what we build, together, in our soul-kissed partnership.
We've spent nearly every minute of our lives together now for four years and counting, and you've used them constantly to make me a better person, for myself and for those around me. You've made me the luckiest man in the world. You ARE my world.
We share every single priority that matters, and yet despite that, our minor differences are so numerous they keep us on our toes all the time. I love this! It pushes each of us to improve on a continuous basis, and makes our lives so much more vibrant and more meaningful than I ever could have dreamed.
I use this word "dream" with eternal depth, because you ARE my dream. Specifically, you are my ever-present, ever-growing, ever-wakeful dream; the whisper of a future so fierce and beautiful that it lingers and caresses my past, present, and future simultaneously.
Our mission that we share is to live a life overflowing with purpose, creativity, and positive impact. This mission is so vast it could sustain us for ten thousand lifetimes. With only one lifetime I know for certain we can share, I plan to treasure every second with you to the greatest of my abilities, and vow to repeatedly push beyond those limits towards an existence that makes you ever increasingly proud of your own life's journey and decisions.
Today, we open this next chapter as a newly minted husband and wife team. You are my love, my heart, and my compass. Today, you are my wife, and once again I become the luckiest man in the world.
Villa Cimbrone · Ravello · 6pm
In joyous celebration of our eternal love — Megan Anne Partridge and Jason Andre Paez
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your field. May the light of friendship guide your paths together. May the laughter of children grace the halls of your home. May the joy of living for one another trip a smile from your lips, a twinkle from your eyes. And, when eternity beckons, at the end of a life heaped high with love, may the world embrace you with the arms that have nurtured you the whole length of your joy-filled days. May history hold you both in the palm of its hand. And today may the spirit of love find a dwelling place in your hearts.
"We carry you in our hearts, always."
8pm · Belvedere Restaurant at the Belmond Hotel Caruso. Smart casual with Italian flair. Immediate family and wedding party.
9pm · The Infinity Pool at the Belmond Hotel Caruso. Cocktail attire. Caruso's wood-oven pizza after canapes.
6pm · The Garden of Two O's at Villa Cimbrone. Garden formal.
7:30pm · The Terrazza dell'Infinito at Villa Cimbrone.
8:15pm until midnight · The Garden of Two Fountains at Villa Cimbrone.
11am · The Garden of the Soul at Villa Rufolo. Gather in the Piazza Duomo and walk together. There will be gelato.
Ravello is an ancient coastal village perched on a hilltop more than 1,200 feet above the Mediterranean Sea, a hidden treasure of the Amalfi Coast that has historically served as an escape for artists, musicians, and writers.
"It was our absolute dream to say 'I do' at Villa Cimbrone, an 11th-century castle with sprawling gardens, the iconic Terrazza dell'Infinito, and panoramic views of the coastline. Over the years the villa has inspired Virginia Woolf, Gore Vidal, and D. H. Lawrence, and sheltered romances like Greta Garbo's with Leopold Stokowski."
The Garden of the Soul, where Wagner found inspiration for the "Magic Garden" of Parsifal.
Garden of Two Fountains · Villa Cimbrone
Shot on medium-format film, Ravello, July 2018.




















































With all our love, Megan & Jason Partridge-Paez
Ravello · July 26, 2018