we're getting married!

While studying abroad in college, we randomly ended up in the same French class. On July 9th, after two weeks of getting to know each other, we went on our first date to a music festival in the heart of Paris. At midnight, Alex surprised Charlotte with glasses of champagne to toast her 20th birthday.

Five years after that first date, we returned to Paris and visited all of our favorite places from that summer study abroad. We made our way back to Place de la Republique (where the music festival was) and ate dinner on the patio of a little cafe. Afterwards, we walked around the little square and that's where Alex got down on one knee.