We met at an Armenian young professionals happy hour in DC! Over the years Aline attended many of these events which led to many great friendships along the way. Over those same years, Chris' Armenian co-worker had constantly urged him to attend these functions, but he always declined. Until one day in the winter of 2016, Chris finally said yes to attending. As the universe would have it, Aline was there too on that very night. He spotted her, and soon approached. The first words Chris uttered to Aline when they met was a simple question... "Parev or Barev?" (which means hello in western and eastern Armenian dialects respectively). Essentially with one word, he was asking which dialect she spoke & which region she originated from. Aline responded with "Parev" and Chris' smile grew, as that was what he [not so secretly] was hoping to hear. The rest is history...