The Bessettes

Jessi ’04 M ’12 and Andy Bessette

Jessi and I met in Noble Hall in 2002. She was a junior and I was a sophomore. Her roommates and mine became close friends celebrating birthdays and holidays, and even starting a “friends-giving” that we still continue to this day. Jessi worked in the library four nights a week and I would go there to study just to see her. After I graduated in 2005, we went our separate ways and lost touch.

During Labor Day weekend in 2009, Jessi sent me an email to see if I wanted to grab dinner one night after her night class. She was working on her master’s degree at Eastern. We met up at Willimantic Brewing Co. and reminisced until closing. We even made a pit stop to our old stomping grounds, Blarney’s. Since that night we’ve been inseparable!

We welcomed our son Collin into the world in June 2013, and a little more than two years later and six years to the day when we met up again, we married at Jonathan Edwards Winery in North Stonington in front of close friends and family.

Jessi is an Early Intervention Teacher at Kennedy Donovan, and I am a Glaucoma Sales Specialist for Alcon Laboratories.