The countdown until we say “I do”

Some love stories start with a grand gesture… ours started with a 21st birthday in Atlantic City. Ana met Chris at his sister Danielle’s big celebration, where they hit it off just enough to make a great first impression—and then promptly never spoke again. Fast forward two years later: Ana was out with Danielle in Hoboken when she spotted a familiar face across the bar. Chris swears he recognized her immediately. Ana swears she didn’t. Either way, they both played it cool and pretended they had never met before (because what’s more romantic than a mutual case of selective amnesia?). Numbers were exchanged, and this time neither of them disappeared. Chris asked Ana out on a first date to O’Neals in Hoboken. Both were nervously sipping their drinks, but the conversation flowed like they’d known each other forever. From that night on, weekly hangouts became their thing, and soon enough it was clear that this was more than just a lucky bar encounter. Five years later, Chris brought the story full circle by proposing in Hoboken and throwing a surprise engagement party at—you guessed it—O’Neals, the very spot where their first date began. Turns out, what happens in Atlantic City doesn’t always stay in Atlantic City.