Colleen and Jay first met back in December of 2022, after Colleen and her Matron-of-Honor, Dorothy, needed some help with their bikes. Colleen had a flat that she had tried (and failed) to fix and Dorothy had more than a few mysterious shakes and rattles in her ride. At the recommendation of their other roommate, Britta, they decided to head over to the new-ish bike shop down the road called Destination Bicycle. Colleen noticed how kind, thoughtful, and generous Jay was with his time and knowledge. Jay noticed Colleen too, but he was very professional...and he also assumed that they were a couple (Dorothy was pregnant at the time). Then, after Colleen kept visiting his shop for increasingly obscure bike needs, they matched on Bumble. Unfortunately, the message Colleen sent expired before Jay had the chance to see it. Luckily, Colleen had plenty of terrible bikes to bring by the shop! Eventually, they found the courage to go out for ice cream and sit by Lake Wingra one evening in mid-May. Jay proposed to Colleen on the two-year anniversary of that first date.