This love story began in the most wonderfully low-key way: right after Cait’s cousin married Joe’s best friend, they suddenly became the two single leftovers in the group. The newlyweds, clearly on a mission, adopted Cait and Joe as their favorite project, inviting them to endless dinners, game nights, and hangouts for months on end—basically turning them into the official third and fourth wheels. What started as awkward small talk over card games and drinks slowly evolved into easy laughs, lingering eye contact, and that subtle realization that, hey, maybe the universe was trying to tell them something. It took Cait and Joe about three months of this slow-build tension before things got official—on a summer camping trip, no less. They spent the weekend fishing, floating in the creek, and talking under the stars, and by the end, Cait mustered up the courage to ask Joe to date her. (Spoiler: he said yes!) Six months later, Joe told Cait he loved her, and then—because their pace has always been more “millennium falcon in hyperspace… eventually”—it took another eight whole years before they got engaged. Cait and Joe’s romance has never been about speed; it’s about savoring every step, like the best slow-burn stories always do.