Love and Lather

December 2019
Originally published in Boston Magazine

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Liz Wible and Conrad Chan met in the library of their New Hampshire high school, but it wasn’t until almost a decade later—after they’d gone to college, moved to Boston, finished grad school, and started new jobs—that they decided to get married. “We definitely took our sweet time,” Liz says, laughing. Conrad agrees: “We never felt any rush,” he adds. “When you know, you know. We were life partners, but it never felt like the right time to propose.”

The perfect moment finally presented itself when the two decided to quit their jobs to travel the world, and purchased one-way tickets to Copenhagen. On their ninth anniversary, a month before they embarked on their global journey, Conrad popped the question at Rye Harbor State Park beach. “It’s a really special place for us,” he says. “We spent many formative years on the Seacoast.”

Once they returned stateside eight months later, they hit the ground running, launching their artisanal soap company, Wild Lather, and diving headfirst into wedding planning. For their August 2019 celebration, the couple tied the knot at New Hampshire’s Gardens at Uncanoonuc Mountain, a whimsical hideaway, surrounded by 80 of their closest family and friends. They re-created their ideal weekend in Boston—replete with Area Four pizza—and took breaks from dancing to Lizzo by warming up around the bonfire. “This was a decade in the making,” Liz says. “It was the culmination of one segment of our life together and the start of another.” Conrad’s take? “My only regret is not eating more pizza,” he says.