Shannon and Peter both attended Boston College. As fate would have it, Peter's friend Chris Mario, who lived across the hall from Peter in his freshman year dorm, grew up in the same hometown as Shannon. Peter tagged along to lunch a handful of times, particularly intrigued since not only was Shannon friends with one of his best friends, she shared the same double major he did. Several classes together and several years later, Shannon and Peter went on their first date* on Valentine's Day in 2012. Since then they've been through terrible jobs, good jobs, grad school (Shannon), cancelled attempts to go to grad school (Peter), Boston, Chicago, Madison, millions of conversations about how great dogs are, constant questions about why they don't yet have a dog and sharing Instagram photos of their favorite dogs with one another. *First actual date is subject to debate. You know how college is.