399 Grove Street
Newton, Massachussetts
02462
Rooms have been reserved for our guests at a discounted rate until August 30th. Kindly reserve your room at your earliest convenience to ensure availability. Please reference the Trippel-Darnell wedding when making your reservation, or use the following link.
We encourage you to take advantage of the shuttle service we will be providing from the Hotel Indigo in Newton to the venue. Alternately, please consider a taxi/Uber/Lyft for transportation. If you choose to drive, a complimentary valet service will be provided at the venue.
The first date that we were cognizant of was at a local pizza place/dive bar (Conte's) where we watched the Jets lose. Greg's credit card got fake-declined by a witty waitress, and he thought that was the end. Thankfully for us, it wasn't the end. We've been inseparable since, and yes, we've been back to Conte's but also enjoy the occasional natural wine bar in Paris.
Our love for food is obvious, and fittingly, Greg proposed to Caroline at 4 Charles Prime Rib in New York City. We had been to this characteristically-New-York 20's-style underground steakhouse before, but the previous time, Caroline was 24 hours away from getting diagnosed with both the A and B strains of the flu. She had just returned from China the day before (thanks, kids on planes)! So since then, we were determined to go back to 4 Charles and get the sundae we hadn't survived to see the first time. Before dessert, Greg got down on one knee, professed his love (with some un-repeatably nerdy and overly loquacious utterances), and we've been forever-baes1 since. We still haven't made it through the sundae.
By Plane
The Venue
Darnell Residence
25 Drumlin Road
Newton, Massachussetts
02459
Shuttle
By Car
Traveling West on I-90:
Follow I-90 West to Washington Street in Newton (take Exit 17). Proceed on Centre Street for 1.9 miles. Then, turn left onto Cypress Street. Merge onto Route 9 East for a quarter of a mile, and take the exit onto Dudley Road. Drumlin Road will be on the right in a mile. Shortly after turning right on Drumlin Road, the venue will be on your right.
Traveling North on I-95:
Follow I-95 North to Kendrick Street in Needham (take exit 19). Continue onto Kendrick Street, which becomes Nahanton Street, and proceed for one mile. Turn left onto Dedham Street and right onto Rosalie Road. Follow Rosalie Road for 0.5 miles. Then, turn right onto Hartman Road. Turn left onto Drumlin Rd after half a mile. The venue will be on your left.
The Wedding
5:00 PM
Black Tie Optional
Ceremony and Reception
25 Drumlin Road
Newton, Massachussetts
02459
Our Story
During our second year of graduate school, we met serendipitously in Caroline's advisor's office while discussing our teaching assistant duties for the upcoming semester. Greg had just transferred to Princeton after a year at Duke, and was assigned to co-TA (with Caroline) for a Computer Science class at Princeton that Caroline's advisor happened to be teaching. While we didn't know it at the time, that meeting turned out to be our first date—Caroline's advisor told her two years later that she had sensed some magic in the office that day (or at least much more than is usually present in Computer Science offices). Later that afternoon, we had our second date at a cafeteria in Princeton. There, we divided up our TA duties, discussed CrossFit and Vitamix blenders, and Caroline decided that Greg wasn't going to be so terrible to work with after all.
