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A CSMFO Love Story

When commercial member Mark Petrasso met municipal member Debbie Rosales in an elevator at the 2014 CSMFO Annual Conference in Palm Springs, he didn’t know it would change his life. And he saw her again and again throughout the years at the Inland Empire Chapter meetings. At one of these meetings before the 2016 CSMFO Annual Conference in Anaheim, he told her to visit his booth in the exhibit hall and he would have something special for her. She did, and he gave her a Disney keychain.

They again bumped into each other at chapter meetings, and at the 2018 CSMFO Annual Conference in Riverside, where they finally set their first date. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Mark and Debbie got married at the Disneyland Hotel on November 8, 2019 with several CSMFO members in attendance and her Disney keychain hanging from her bridal bouquet.

All photography by CSMFO Creative Director; David Blue Garrison

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