The second chapter of our love story began like many modern day love stories do - on a dating app. But we weren't complete strangers when the algorithm gods brought us together early in 2020.

Narrator: Their circles had overlapped for years through mutual friends, little coincidences, and near-miss encounters even living on the same street for years.

Point is, this was a modern day romance with a two ships passing in the night sort of twist.

What followed was a flurry of exciting dates and a pretty immediate realization that this could go the distance.

We have since enjoyed countless memorable adventures near and far and are making our first house a home together in Seattle.

We got engaged during a hut-to-hut trek in the Dolomites. On one particular day of the trek, instead of a 23-mile push that ended in profound soreness, we enjoyed a mini-bottle of champagne in a mountain hut in the Italian Alps, before falling asleep in a bunk room shared with thirty other adventurers.

This journey of ours has been magical, and we can't wait to see whats in store for us after we mark this milestone with all our people.