We're getting married!

As with many relationships these days, ours started with Bumble. Bruce had a profile where he was flaunting a fully fledged, unkempt "Bar Trip" beard and holding a fish. Luckily, he happened to have gone to law school with Madeline (sister of the bride and co-MOH) and she was able to assure Ashley that "he is cute, I don't know why he chose those photos". Two swipes right and it's a match! We went to Light Years natural wine bar where we split a bottle of Bordeaux and talked until they closed. Two months later, a global pandemic hit and Ashley moved in to quarantine at Bruce's apartment. Our dog Finn joined the quaran-team in November 2020.

The best day of 2021 happened almost 2 years after our first date. We were in Telluride for the holidays and snow was on the forecast every day. Bruce wanted to go to brunch and chose the one day of the week that had the lowest chance of snow, which happened to be Wednesday. Wednesday arrived and it was still snowing. But with the plans already in motion, snow wasn't going to stop brunch. We stopped for coffee in Mountain Village before brunch, where Bruce mentioned that my dad asked him to pick up an "avalanche dog" patch on the way into Telluride. This didn't seem weird to me, as my dad is always assigning these sorts of odd tasks. The avalanche dog patches are only sold at the ski patrol hut at the top of the mountain. So we got off the gondola at the top and walked a few hundred yards to the hut, with the blizzard in full force. Turns out they only accept cash at the ski patrol hut. Rather than turning around to the warmth of the gondola station, Bruce led me further up the mountain to the San Sophia Overlook, which usually boasts a magnificent view of Telluride—that is, unless you are in the middle of a full-fledged blizzard. Bruce stopped at the Overlook and got down on one knee. I started crying almost as soon as he started his speech and may have (definitely) said yes before he even asked.