When Ben Bryant and Eileen Plaehn met on September 14, 2018, at a bar in Boston, neither of them knew or expected it would lead to a lifetime of friendship and commitment to each other. After exchanging phone numbers that night, a week later they had their first date at Franklin Cafe in Boston’s South End.
In the years since, they have become best friends and life partners, and times have been filled with memorable experiences, including summers in Marblehead, Swampscott, and travels across the country.
Ben is a native of Marblehead, and Eileen a native of Wrentham. Ben’s family continues to live in Marblehead, while Eileen’s parents coincidently moved to Swampscott in 2017, just down the road from the Bryant home.
In December of 2021, after three years of dating, Ben proposed on a trip to Old Quebec at the top of a hill overlooking the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac Hotel and Lawrence River.
Ben and Eileen were married on November 5, 2022, at the Mary Queen of the Apostles Parish, followed by a night of dinner and dancing at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem.
The two look forward to a lifetime of being together. While currently residing in Charlestown, they look forward to returning to the North Shore in the future.
