In one of the craziest times during our lives where life was anything but normal, most people were fearful of even seeing family let alone dating. We both decided to give the whole online dating thing a try because what else were we doing?! We met on Bumble where the premise is the girl makes the move first so Dee "swiped right" on Matt and Matt "swiped right" on Dee and then the conversation, initiated by Dee began. It was a short few weeks of messaging on Bumble, quickly followed by texting then phone calls and then FaceTime calls. Then on October 9 came, the night of our first date! It was a lovely fall evening so we decided to sit outside as we had our "drink" together which quickly turned into more drinks and dinner which turned into the longest first date that either of us had ever had. I'm pretty sure we both realized that night that there was something special here. From that night forward, we embraced dating during a time where you needed to limit how many people you surrounded yourself with and used that time to get to know each other. Realizing that we shared so much in common we started spending more and more time together and sharing many charcuterie boards and cans of craft beer with each other. Fast forward a little over a year... we got engaged on November 4, 2021 while on the beach in Florida. Our relationship happened when we both expected it the least but needed it the most.