The Couple
Alexandra Carol Book
A native New Englander, Alex came to the Washington, DC area after graduating
from Rhode Island School of Design in 2003. She embarked on her Graphic Design
career at Think Design in Falls Church, VA, where she worked for four years.
Continuing to hone her skills as a designer, Alex has expanded her interests into
the marketing field. She currently works at Clark Realty Capital in Arlington, VA. —
only a five minute walk from the front door of her & Troy's apartment.
Always full of energy, Alex finds time to hang out with friends,
frequent her favorite restaurants, watch movies, and play with her cat Lily.
She is excited to have a new godson, Peter, and enjoys spending time with him
and the rest of the Gardner family.
Alex may
be reached via telephone at 703-304-7317 (mobile), 571-312-2928 (home), or
703-294-4605 (work). She may also be reached via email at alexbook@earthlink.net.
Please, however, send all wedding related emails to
wedding@alexandtroy.com.
Troy Michael Goode
Originally from an hour or so south of DC in Stafford/Fredericksburg, VA, Troy
spent time living in West Virginia and Alabama before finally coming back to the
DC area in 2000. He has worked in the software development industry for 10 years
and is an avid follower of new technology.
After many years of working as both an independent consultant and for a few
small consulting firms (primarily Diamax Information Systems), last year Troy accepted an in-house position at the
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). Like Alex, Troy's office is
located a mere five minute walk from their apartment. In fact, Alex works in the
building next door to Troy, which is owned by NRECA!
When he isn't at work or spending time with Alex, Troy can usually be found
parked on the couch playing video games. For five months of the year Sunday is
football day (go Saints!); Troy and his friends spend the day watching the games
and competing against each other's fantasy football teams. Thanks to a lovely
gift from Alex, Troy is finally certified to sail in the area and is eagerly
looking forward to next year's boat season.
Troy may be reached via telephone at 703-254-4502 (mobile), 571-312-2928 (home),
or 703-907-5752 (work). He may also be reached via email at tgoode@squaredroot.com (personal) or
troy.goode@nreca.org (work). Please,
however, send all wedding related emails to
wedding@alexandtroy.com.
How We Met
In late 2005, Alex began a freelance project for a client that lived near
her that she was introduced to by an old high school friend. Alex and that client, Jillian Bevard (now Jillian Gardner), quickly became
inseperable and refer to themselves as "the bubbies."
At the same time Jillian had begun dating Brett Gardner, a friend Troy had just
recently been reintroduced to. Coincedently this group of friends all lived in
the Ballston area.
One night the guys and girls both decided to have a
separate "guys night" and "girls night" out. Fate, it would seem, had different
intentions and both groups managed to pick the same place to go out to,
unbeknownst to the other group. So it was that on a cold night in January that
Troy met Alex at the Clarendon Ballroom.
They saw each other in social settings a few times after that before Troy finally
succeeded in tricking asking Alex out on a date to Le Geulois Cafe. Troy must've
done something right because he had the luck to take Alex out again the next
week for Valentine's Day to Taverna Cretekou. A year and a half later Taverna Cretekou would become the
site of a very important dinner — the dinner where Troy asked Alex to marry him.
That, however, is a different story altogether. =)