Pizza Nova Love Story

I am over the moon thrilled for my good friends Melanie and Joe who just got engaged on Saturday.  They are your classic "offbeat" couple and I love them even more for it!  Melanie would die of embarrassment at any sort of big, showy proposal, but Joe is an endless romantic. Their wedding will be vows at city hall followed by, what else, Italian food for guests!  There has never been a soul more in love with pizza than my Mel.  She shared her "engagement story", as written by her fiancée Joe, which he submitted to Pizza Nova (which makes me laugh hysterically and cry a little out of the sweetness of it all) - Joe's parents were engaged shortly after a meal at Pizza Nova over thirty years ago, so it really is a special place!

Please enjoy some romance, on this chilliest of Mondays...

"At lunch, she made table talk, almost regretting that her palette found Nova's cheese sticks, and pizza, simply too delicious.  She claimed that the tastes, so perfect, had brought her to a point where trying other items on the new menu seemed almost impossible.  Finding this little lament pleasing, I said she need not fret, and carried on with my own grilled calamari.

     Shortly after our meal, we were walking home, passing a familiar courtyard.  Suddenly I had the overwhelming desire to bend on one knee and ask this woman for her hand in marriage.  Surely, the contentment of another satisfying visit to Nova gave me the conviction to propose, and she the willingness to accept.  Doubters of this equation, we are not.

     Though unscripted, our move to commit immediately following a dining experience at your restaurant, is nothing new in my family.  Three, plus, decades prior, my parents shared a wheel at Pizza Nova, then got engaged an hour later.

      Besides fresh basil, what else are you guys putting in the sauce over there?"

 

Congrats to Mel and Joe, the most die-hard Argo fans, costume-lovers, pizza eaters and funniest couple I know.  We can't wait to celebrate with you this spring!