Sarah and Sam Rosenberg Celebrate First Anniversary

Who can say where true love will find you?

Despite both having attended Boston University, Sam Rosenberg and Sarah Gorham didn’t meet until years later living in New York—he in a 200-suare-foot studio near Penn Station and she in a shared apartment in Morningside Heights. The stars aligned when mutual friends introduced them at a Red Sox bar in the East Village.

"I was very interested in her right off the bat," Rosenberg, a video editor, remembered. "I definitely told my friend that she was somebody I was going to pursue."

Gorham, a willowy blonde who works at RalphLauren.com and runs a personal style blog called Rosenbklyn, had also taken note of the encounter. “He was a very easy person to talk to,” she recalled. “We just hit it off that night.” 

The pair continued to date, commuting between Midtown and the Upper, Upper West Side, for roughly two years before deciding to move in with one another.

“We had friends who were already in Carroll Gardens,” said Rosenberg. “And just as soon as you got off the train it had this beautiful depth to it. Things are more relaxed and friendly. So we knew we wanted to try to live here.”

Settling into an apartment on Huntington Street cater-cornered from , the couple easily slipped into domesticity.

“We were always really comfortable around each other,” said Rosenberg. “There was no need to put on any airs. There are some people who you are just able to be yourself with right away. That's how it was with her."

Gorham agreed with that sentiment.

“I would say we have a fair amount in common,” she said. “We both enjoy going out, eating good food, spending time with our families and traveling around to different places.”

In particular, the couple would often take trips upstate to her parents’ house on a lake in the Adirondacks, a lifelong family retreat. So when Rosenberg began ring shopping, the location for his proposal came to him naturally. 

“We had been planning to go to the house for the 4th of July weekend and my parents were coming up as well,” he said. “It was going to be the first time everyone would be spending a lot of time together and I knew it was a very special place for Sarah.

"I didn't tell my parents when I was going to ask because I knew my mom wouldn't be able to keep a secret,” he continued, with a laugh.

But when the weekend finally arrived, “she must have figured out what was going to happen,” Rosenberg said, “because she didn't say a word during the entire three and a half hour drive."

Working quickly upon arrival, Rosenberg immediately took Sarah’s father aside and asked for his blessing. He then lured Gorham down to the boathouse alone, feigning concern over a soiled new backpack.

“In retrospect, I feel like I should have seen the signs,” she said. “But it definitely caught me by surprise—a pleasant surprise.”

A little less than a year later, the couple exchanged vows over Memorial Day Weekend at the White Pine Camp, just 20 minutes away from where they were engaged. The groom’s grandfather officiated the ceremony and, in lieu of a traditional tiered cake, the couple served a make-your-own sundae bar for guests to create their own heaping bowls of ice cream.

Surrounded by friends and family members at their special respite, not even a torrential downpour could dampen the bride and groom’s spirits.

“There was a thunder and lightning storm in the middle of the reception,” the bride recalled. “Luckily we were under a tent. But the power went out temporarily for maybe 30 seconds. Everyone sort of stopped in that moment and then it came back on—and everyone cheered and the band started back up again. We danced all night. It was the best time I have ever had in my life!” 

In contrast, the couple chose to quietly celebrate their first anniversary last month close to home. And you can't get any closer than walking across the street to Buttermilk Channel.

"We went there so many times when we first moved in,” said Rosenberg. “We had to stop ourselves, actually, because we were going there all the time after dinner to have their pecan pie sundaes. There are only so many times you can do that."

But there are no limits to the adoration the couple feels for each other one year into life as Mr. and Mrs.

"Her style—everything from the way she presents herself, the way she carries herself in her life and the way that she is with other people—is very inspirational to me,” the groom said. “She's always very moral and I can always count on her to make sure we're both doing the right thing.

The new Mrs. Rosenberg expressed her unwavering love simply and succinctly: “He makes me laugh; he makes me incredibly happy. With him, it’s right.”

*Wedding photography care of Emily McManamy