We met at Freehold in Brooklyn through mutual friends. I was fresh out of college, searching for my first apartment in NYC. Brendan was a newly licensed Real Estate Agent. We struck up conversation and for those of you who know Brendan well, it shouldn't come as a surprise that his first instinct was to try to poach me as a client. I told him I was only interested in going on a date, and the rest is history.

We booked a trip to Nantucket for Brendan's "birthday" (at least that's what I thought!). On our last night, we went to Madaket Beach to watch the sunset. We sat down on the beach to watch the sky light up, and turned to me and asked "Do you really think we're on this trip for my birthday?" (I thought the obvious answer was "yes!"). The next thing I knew, he was down on one knee asking me to marry him - and we were engaged!