Manos and Caitlin met backstage at Florida Grand Opera where Manos came to see his first opera after attending a conference in nearby Orlando. Their mutual friend Zoe Zeniodi, a conductor with FGO, made the introduction.... and after a lovely weekend getting to know each other in the company of friends, it seemed that they might never meet again.... Luckily, they took fate into their own hands and did meet again. After many trips across the ocean, Manos moved to NYC in March of 2018. Just shy of a year later, they got engaged!