Baltimore Bride – July 2019

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he bride wore flip flops, her feet wet,

the groom’s gray suit was soaked with

rain. Abandoned chips and guacamole

littered the table at their venue. It wasn’t

supposed to be like this, but Kristen

Rigney and Craig Cymbor were married at

a Mexican restaurant in Historic Ellicott

City on Sunday, May 27 over Memorial

Day weekend 2018.

Just 30 minutes earlier, their wedding

day was going according to plan. Rigney

and Cymbor were minutes away from

walking down the aisle up until water

started filling the parking lot, sending

cars and dumpsters floating by like rubber

ducks in a bathtub.

The two first met under less stressful

conditions. Cymbor had noticed Rigney

right away at the engineering firm where

they both worked. She was “really pretty

and outdoorsy,” says Cymbor. He finally

worked up the nerve to visit Rigney at

Holiday Heap, a marketplace featuring

handmade goods, where she was selling

retro aprons. “Would you want to make

some aprons for my mom and sister?”

Cymbor casually asked. “Maybe we can

figure out the fabric?” Rigney said sure,

not realizing the true ask: Let’s go out.

But Cymbor didn’t push it.

Soon, however, he found himself travel-

ing a lot for work—and no longer calling

Baltimore home. Rigney followed along on

his social media. “I liked all his photos,”

she laughs, and remembers thinking,

“Craig Cymbor was a nice guy, I should

have gone out with him.” The next time he

was in town, she seized on the opportu-

nity. Numbers were exchanged, beers were

consumed, and then commitments were

made. They dated long distance for three

years until he returned in 2016 and moved

directly into her house in Baltimore. “She’s

my landlord,” he jokes. “Best tenant I ever

had,” she counters. That following July, he

had a ring burning a hole in his pocket.

While she was away for two weeks travel-

ing for work, he started—and finished—a

major backyard project: leveling it, build-

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