We're getting married!

We met by chance at a college pool in August 2017, two sun-dazed kids, 20 and 21, just hanging with our friends. Chlorine in the air, soccer ball bouncing off the water, and somehow, in all that noise, we heard each other perfectly. By day’s end, we had traded laughter, glances, and those butterflies that feel like summer forever. A week later, Lola blurted “I love you,” soft, certain, and a little shocked at her own honesty. Nine days after that first splash, we made it official, because when you know, you don’t need a calendar. Three months in, Gian met Lola’s parents, and the same easy warmth that won her over won them too. A month later, just four months together, Gian took Lola back home to the Bahamas for Christmas with his family: island breezes, twinkling lights, and family stories over dinner. It felt less like a visit and more like finding another piece of home. We have been inseparable ever since. In 2020, we got engaged in January and moved in together in Miami, with the city’s hum outside our window and our little rituals filling the space inside, and because of COVID we had to postpone all the wedding plans, holding tight to the life we were already building. Today, Lola is finishing her last year of medical school and Gian is wrapping up his master’s in accounting. When we’re not studying, we’re exploring new cities, spending time near the ocean, taking hot-girl walks on Brickell Key, hitting the racquetball court, or hanging with our families. Our favorite nights are dinners out to try something new, then wine nights at home with a house playlist that always finds the perfect beat. When tassels turn and diplomas are framed, we will start the next chapter, our wedding in Europe. From a poolside hello to a lifetime of yes, from house beats to wine nights, from dinners out to racquetball rallies, from study nights in to driving the Ring Road in Iceland, we have always been quick to love and brave enough to leap. The best part is that we are still just getting started. As 20-year-old Lola would say: “When you know, you know.”