10.2.2027

Our story began in early 2020, when the whole world seemed to slow down all at once. We first connected online, just as everything closed and life grew quiet. There were no crowded restaurants or big nights out, only the two of us getting to know each other, learning how to make one another laugh when so much felt uncertain. Friendship came first. For months we talked about everything and nothing, about the lives we had imagined and the ones the year was quietly rewriting. The more time we spent together, the more it felt like we had found something rare and steady in the middle of a world that was anything but. Slowly, our friendship grew into a love we both knew was meant to last. By January 21, 2021, we were officially each other's. Four years later, on May 2, 2025, we said yes to forever. What began quietly, in the most uncertain of times, became the most certain thing we have ever known. We cannot wait to celebrate it with the people we love.

In Sharon's words Some people fall asleep to white noise. I fell asleep to How I Met Your Mother. I moved to San Diego from Bat Yam, Israel in the summer of 2014, chasing sunshine and a fresh start. Growing up, my sister and I had loved that show like it was written for us. It was our inside joke, our comfort, our shared language of laughter. So when I landed in a brand new city, in a brand new country, it became my nightly ritual, the familiar voice that made an unfamiliar world feel a little more like home. I never imagined that voice would one day propose to me. Years later, Joshua surprised me with tickets to see Josh Radnor, yes, Ted Mosby himself, performing at the House of Blues in San Diego. I thought it was the sweetest date night. I had no idea what was coming. Midway through the show, Josh Radnor began to play Apocalyptic Love Song. He told the crowd how many couples had chosen it for their first dance. "It is not the happiest song," he said, smiling, "but it is about how love endures, even through the hardest times." Then he looked out into the audience, straight at Joshua, and asked, "Ready, Josh?" I turned, and Joshua was already down on one knee. In the city that had become my home, with the voice that once comforted a homesick girl now filling the room, he asked me to be his wife. The move, the late nights, the show that felt like family, all of it came full circle in a single, perfect moment. I said yes. Love, Sharon