History

How they met

Charlotte and Wolfgang first met on the 16th of October 2000 at the University of Cambridge. It was Charlotte’s second week at university and Wolfgang’s second year and second week. This is how they looked back in 2000:

And this is in 2001 at a May Ball:

The Wilderness Years

They were together in Cambridge for three years until Wolfgang finished his degree and went to Edinburgh to pursue a Masters and then a PhD. Charlotte went to Birmingham for her PhD. so what followed were four years of commuting between Edinburgh and Birmingham. Poor Wolfgang bore the brunt of the commuting as Charlotte was often in the lab at weekends, slaving over a cold cryostat. Still, they did manage to get some good holidays in together. The photo below was taken in Trinidad by Tim (The Best Man).

Reunited again

After their PhDs against all the odds Charlotte and Wolfgang were able to get jobs in the same town, back in Cambridge again. Charlotte got a post-doc at the University and Wolfgang got a post-doc at Microsoft Research. They were finally able to live together, no longer in student accommodation, and it was while they were living in Cambridge that they got engaged.

The engagement

Wolfgang proposed to Charlotte exactly 10 years to the day after they first met, at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The weather was pretty appalling, but the sun shined at the appropriate moment.

Where are they now?

Charlotte and Wolfgang are currently living in California and both working for a biotechnology start-up half an hour outside San Francisco called Halcyon Molecular. They will be back in the UK for the wedding (British Airways strikes allowing).

Charlotte and Wolfgang are looking forward to having guests from all stages of their lives joining them for the celebration