Preliminary Details

For Ashleigh and Nicholas, more difficult than deciding to get married is deciding how to get married. With each of them having very different notions of ideal wedding scenarios, negotiation of the basic wedding details was an early lesson in rigorous marital compromise. Through all of that, the following has emerged:

When: Sunday morning, July 18, 2010
Where: Eastern Promenade, Portland, Maine

Following the ceremony, we will walk to Restaurant Grace in downtown Portland for brunch and festivities before seeing the bride and groom off to their honeymoon.

The evening before the ceremony we will host an informal dinner at Saltwater Grill and we will invite our family and friends to give advice and tell stories about marriage.

Background & Engagement

Nicholas Rinard and Ashleigh Arledge met in 2005 in Indianapolis, when Nicholas was living in Las Vegas, Nevada and Ashleigh was living in Portland, Maine. They courted through a series of cross-country trips, then in summer 2006 Nicholas moved to Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, and Ashleigh joined him. After traveling all around Alaska that summer, they moved together to Juneau and took jobs. Their relationship blossomed there in the rain forest, and they invested energy in their careers at prominent local companies. They traveled the region together and developed many friendships. In 2009 they embarked on an epic 11,000-mile road trip around North America, finishing safely in Madison, Wisconsin in August, in time for Ashleigh to start graduate school in Economics. Nicholas started a job in October.

In January of 2010, Nicholas and Ashleigh decided to get married, and sealed the deal by getting each other rings.