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"What began as a friendly bike ride has led us to this wonderful day. Congrats, Dennis and Chelsa. You guys are the squeeziest! #sqz"
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- Dennis Crowley (born June 19, 1976) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding the popular social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare.
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The bride, 32, is an editorial and strategy director at Bobbi Brown Cosmetics in New York. She works with the creative, digital and marketing departments on social media strategy and the naming of collections. She graduated from Indiana University at Fort Wayne.
She is the daughter of Pamela Cordova Garbig of Citra, Fla., and Kerry L. Skees of Warsaw, Ind., and a stepdaughter of Terry Garbig.
The groom, 37, is a founder and the chief executive of Foursquare, the social networking service, in New York. He is a founder of Dodgeball, a social networking service in New York that was acquired by Google in 2005. He graduated from Syracuse University and received a master’s in professional studies from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, where he is an adjunct professor.
He is a son of Mary Moraski Crowley and Dennis P. Crowley of Medway, Mass.
The couple met through friends in December 2007 at Mr. Crowley’s annual Christmas tree-trimming party. But he had noticed Ms. Skees a few months earlier when she started popping up in mutual friends’ photographs on Flickr.
“I was like: ‘Who is this person? Why don’t we hang out with her?’ ” Mr. Crowley said. So when she arrived at his apartment, he almost could not maintain his aplomb.
Ms. Skees said she had no romantic interest in Mr. Crowley, but they became friends, regularly e-mailing and instant-messaging, and sharing silly photos on Flickr. Mr. Crowley said that he also paid particularly close attention to Ms. Skees on Dodgeball, which allowed users to share their locations with a network of friends, and once or twice “serendipitously” showed up at the same bar as she.
“I try to have more fun than I was having yesterday,” Mr. Crowley said, “and she’s the first person I’ve ever met who I have trouble keeping up with.”
Mr. Crowley finally got the nerve to ask her out via e-mail in June 2008. He was visiting his parents on Cape Cod at the time, but when Ms. Skees said yes to a bicycle ride, he packed up and drove back to New York that evening. The next day, they spent eight hours together, riding 15 miles to see the waterfalls created by the artist Olafur Eliasson in the East River. At the end of the night, as they said goodbye on the Williamsburg Bridge, Mr. Crowley leaned over and tried to kiss her.
Startled, Ms. Skees hopped onto her bike and rode off. She had not thought that they were on a date. “I just didn’t realize it,” she said. “But it put the idea in my mind. It kind of does make sense. He’s the perfect guy for me. Our friends always joke that I’m the girl version of him, and he’s the boy version of me.”
They never formally discussed what happened that night, but they began hanging out more often, and by the end of July, they shared their first kiss after a Mets game.
CHELSA SKEES, DENNIS CROWLEY ‘Girl Version’ of Him, ‘Boy Version’ of Her
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