Daniel and Erin were brought together by an “extensive network of friends” in November 2003 in Huntington on Long Island. Their early courtship included checking out all the local state parks, frequenting the neighborhood Chinese restaurant for their excellent veggie “beef” and broccoli, watching the lunar eclipse and making lots of trips into Brooklyn and Manhattan to visit friends. Daniel has since introduced Erin to the wide world of pasta, which encompasses more than just spaghetti (apparently, there weren’t many Italians in Yuba City). Erin is still trying to teach Daniel the semantic difference between important fashion concepts, like “skirt” and “dress,” but she hasn’t given up yet. Whenever possible, they go sailing, hiking, camping, bike riding, downhill skiing (when Erin’s knee isn’t all torn up, of course), or reading in Prospect Park. They are both obsessed with reading every detail in and trying out recipes from Cook’s Illustrated magazine. They currently live in a cozy garden apartment in a beautiful brownstone in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. Daniel asked Erin to marry him when they were in the Florida Keys last September on the edge of a broken railway trellis, waiting for a misty sunset. While the thought of eloping did cross their minds, the idea of a party with their family and closest friends was too good to pass up…that, and it was a perfect reason to plan a dreamy two week honeymoon to Hawaii!

About Erin

Erin Shannon Irene Case was born June 29, 1974 in the small northern California town of Yuba City, home of the internationally renowned Prune Festival, where her parents Gordon and Amaryllis still live. Erin is the youngest of three children, and is affectionately known as Auntie Erin to her niece Evelyn and three nephews, Max, Jeremy and Daelan, whom she loves very much. Her brothers Shaun and Ryan also live with their families in “NorCal.” She spent much of her youth missing her two front teeth, lost during an unfortunate jumping on the bed incident. During Erin’s toothless years, she was in the Girl Scouts, where she “camped hard” in the local mall and made newspaper insulated sit-upons (for those who didn’t make it past the Brownies, here’s a descriptive link). She spent many summers with her family at the Thousand Trails campground in the Sierra Nevada foothills. As an exchange student in Spain, Erin learned about everything in Spanish culture from Gazpacho to Pablo Picasso, but unfortunately she never learned how to dance the Flamenco. Besides Spain, she’s also been to England, Wales, France, Morocco (where her father declined to sell her to rug merchants, even though the rug was really nice), Prague, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Costa Rica, China, India, Mexico and even exotic Canada. Most of those trips have actually been for fun instead of for work to visit “textile factories” (and get foot massages)! Erin graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree from San Francisco State University, where she majored in Apparel Design and minored in Studio Art. Here she developed a lifelong passion for fashion and design. After college, Erin did stints in production and buying for retail giants Esprit de Corps and Williams-Sonoma before moving to the colder and snowier climate of Huntington, New York in January 2003. This was quite a shock to her San Francisco blood and 50-80°F wardrobe, but she continued her ladder climb at Bed Bath and Beyond and finally Company Kids where she is currently a Buyer. When she’s not acting as Dan’s sous-chef, Erin enjoys designing and sewing her own clothes, handcrafting needlework treasures for friends and family, skiing, hiking, biking and Pilates.

About Daniel

Daniel Seth Jurnove was born on October 10, 1976 on Long Island, New York. He grew up in Baldwin, NY, where his father instilled in him a life-long passion for ice hockey. The New York Islanders are still his favorite team. As a young lad, he spent most summers at Boy Scout camp or with the Hansen side of his family in the Finger Lakes, NY, where his grandparents and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins live. In high school, Daniel and his friends organized live hardcore music shows at the YMCA in Huntington on Long Island. (Hardcore music is both as loud and as angsty as it sounds.) Dan will tell that you that all he did was “set up & break down sound stuff in between hanging out with the bands and straight-edge kids,” but this was actually the beginning of his music snob-dom. He has since researched the history of, listened intently to, and built an extensive music library of all bands and musicians worthy of his attention in a wide range of genres from blues to country to 70’s glam rock to (of course) hardcore. To counter his angsty image, Dan also became involved in tamer (read: geekier) pursuits, like role-playing games, computer programming and that burgeoning fad, the Internet. Something of a ramblin’ man, after high school Dan lived in a number of New York towns (Huntington, Hector, Corning, Oceanside, Centereach and Sound Beach) before driving across the country to take a year off from work & studies and live like a Canadian in Vancouver, B.C. Though the discovery of poutine (fries with gravy and cheese, strange for a devout vegetarian) was quite a siren song to keep him in Canada, when the mad money ran out he ended up back in New York (Long Beach then Cold Spring Harbor and Huntington…again) where Erin finally cured him of his ramblin’ ways and they settled down in Brooklyn. During his stint in Long Beach, Dan graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from the New York Institute of Technology and is now an engineer at Square D. In addition to hacking all of their electronic entertainment appliances and building a vast video game assortment (geeky habits die hard), he cooks gourmet meals, dabbles in photography, skis crazy double black diamond trails and collects strategy board games.