Vacations over vases: Sebastopol native’s alternative to a wedding registry

Francesca Gonnella and Simon Harding are having an intimate wedding this Valentine’s weekend with the dream of a delayed summer honeymoon on the beach, either the Maldives or Lake Como in Italy.

The two met online during the pandemic and had a long-distance relationship, with Gonnella in Sonoma County and Harding in England. Gonnella moved overseas to be with Harding but after a few months, the couple relocated to Santa Rosa.

“Both of us have established lives and most of the things we need already,” Gonnella said. “In fact, because we’ve moved so much with the international travel and everything else, we kind of are trying to not have stuff.”…

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