Caitlin and Melman met in their last year of college at a party. Just hear me out ok? Caitlin went to the University of Illinois and marched both mellophone and tuba in the Marching Illini. Melman went to the University of Minnesota and marched tuba in the Pride of Minnesota. In 2017, tuba players from all over the Big Ten decided they wanted to meet each other and in February 2018 they organized a party at the tuba house on the Illinois campus, “Brotel California”. The party was affectionately named “Sousalabooza”. The morning of the big party, Melman and his Minnesota tubas were sleeping on the living room floor when Caitlin rudely barged in at 9:00am. Melman sprang to attention, and Caitlin asked him about his tuba tattoo. That conversation led to them spending the rest of that day glued to each other and they've been inseparable ever since.