After serving as loyal Match.com customers for too many years to count, in the fall of 2015 Derek stumbled onto Mattie's Match profile, sent a message, and began what's become our love story! We went on our first date on November 5, 2015 at the Beat Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We met for drinks, which turned into dinner, which turned into talking and laughing and swapping stories for so long that we closed the bar -- and the rest, as they say, is history. On July 3, at a dear friend's lake home, Derek proposed to Mattie while she sat in a kayak and he floated on a paddleboard -- Mattie was so stunned he'd dared to bring the ring out into the middle of a lake that she actually forgot to say yes right away! From hikes through Chimney Hill Farm's forests to walks along the Seine in Paris, from ferry rides to Nantucket to epic car rides through New England, from lounging on Florida beaches to swimming in New Hampshire lakes, we've found in one another a partner to share in traveling, Boston sports watching, spending time with dear friends and family, loving on our cat Jax, enjoying good food (and sweets), practicing yoga, skiing, golfing (despite Mattie's novice skills in those latter sports...), and more. We feel very blessed to have found one another and are thrilled to say our "I do"s next year!