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Beau & Leesa
are Getting Married
Our Story
We met on August 16th, 2017 on Leesa’s first day of work at Esri. A colleague introduced us at a lunchtime tech talk, knowing that Leesa had grown up and gone to college relatively close to where Beau had also studied. Over the next three and a half years, we were friendly acquaintances who would sometimes run into one another at parties or in the Esri cafe at lunchtime.
Leesa moved back to the Philadelphia area in early 2021 and Beau followed a few years later. We had completely fallen out of touch by Autumn 2023, when a combination of the omnipresent social media algorithm & mutual friends pointing out that we were local to one another led to us reconnecting.
On November 30th, 2023, we met up at the Christmas Market in Philly’s Love Park for what we both really hoped was a date. In Spring 2024, we moved into a rowhome in Philadelphia’s West Mount Airy neighborhood. We lived there with our three cats (Fred, George, and Dexter!) until October 2025, when we bought our dream home and made the move to Beau’s hometown of Towanda, PA.
Our Home
Our home was built in the early 1890s by Simon Rendall and his wife, Isabella. They called it Launchley House in honor of the farm Simon had grown up on in Somerset, England. One of nine children, Simon was orphaned in childhood and relocated to the Scranton area with some of his siblings before the Civil War. In 1880, he moved to Towanda to act as the co-owner and bookkeeper for an iron and nail factory in town. In 1888, he married Isabella Pratt, a popular girl from a prominent family of Towandan doctors.
The Rendalls lived in the house until after Simon’s death in 1910. Since then, Launchley has enjoyed a long and colorful history, filled with happy families who took great care of the house and kept it close to its original spirit. We like to think that, if Simon and Isabella Rendall walked through our front doors today, they’d still recognize it as the place they called home more than a century ago.
In the time since the house has come into our lives, Leesa has done exhaustive amounts of research into its history. This has included spending hours at the Bradford County Historical Society and going so far as to speak with families of many of the previous owners. We have collected so many photographs, anecdotes, and other “artifacts” which we are so excited to share with you.
Our Wedding
As soon as the idea of having our wedding at our home was broached, we knew there was no place more perfect for us to get married. There are a few reasons for this.
First, in getting to know the house and its history, we’ve learned so much about the other families who have called our house their home in its lifetime. We feel very strongly that knowing more about them has enriched our own sense of belonging and homecoming here. We’re so lucky that these walls will watch our lives unfold just as they have watched so many others. Having our wedding here will put one more big life milestone on the list of events that have occurred here in its more than 130 years of existence. We’re delighted for our wedding to be a part of the house’s legacy.
Secondly, we are so excited to use our wedding as an opportunity to introduce the house and the Northern Tier region of Pennsylvania to our friends and family who live further afield and might not be able to come visit very often. One of Leesa’s favorite things about Beau is his love for the part of the world that raised him. We hope you’re as excited to see the place where we hope to spend our lives as we are to show you.
