We are proof of the red string theory! We met when we were babies in Mexico, then reconnected at Iowa State and fell in love in Italy!
We would like to thank you for supporting Barbara & Jorge in this year's competition. Your participation allows us to aid both the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and Oceana in their respective missions to support hunger relief and ocean conservation.
We met in the year 2000 as babies in San Luis Potosi, Mexico where our dads worked together. Jorge moved and grew up to Chicago and I to Mobile, AL. Looking for snow I ended up going to college at Iowa State on his last semester there. On my last fall semester he said he liked me, but I would studying abroad in Italy for the spring semester so it wasn’t going to work… As soon as I landed in Rome, Jorge booked his flight to visit for spring break. Our fist dates in Rome, Venice, and Florence we….
What is your favorite memory you've shared as a couple?The beginning of our love story was truly out of a movie! Traveling through Italy, missing a train, and trying to speak Italian really prepared us for the following 2 years we would be dating long distance.
What would you do with $20,000?We are currently planning our wedding in Mérida, Yucatan! Between Mexico, Alabama, Chicago, Iowa, Milwaukee, and Houston (where we live now) we have a long list people that have supported us and loved us in every step of life and we want to not just have a party for them, but really provide a cultural experience of Mexican weddings. We would be so happy to have them celebrate and give them an amazing experience!
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