I met Matt before my senior year of high school, when he was going into his junior year at Miami of Ohio. We didn't begin dating until the following year, when I had graduated high school and he was going into his senior year. I visited him almost every other weekend at Miami, and when he graduated (on my birthday, I might add) I was relieved we'd finally both be in Akron! However, he got a job at a startup in Chicago in October of 2013. Unsure how to manage being long distance again, I talked to my parents and they urged me to go with him! In 2014 I joined Matt in Chicago and we've been here for over five years. We got engaged 11/21/2019, the day before Thanksgiving, in my mom's living room. It was so casual, so sweet, and so Matt. I could not be happier to be marrying him in 2021!