We're getting married!

We officially met as Penn freshmen on Locust Walk, though we didn’t hit it off until our sophomore year—which is to say, we didn’t hit it off until Jake got rid of the Justin Bieber hairstyle he’d been sporting since 2011. While credit for this first introduction goes to Jake’s now-groomsman, Doug Swift, we must also extend thanks to his other, Ikenna Osakwe, for pushing Jake through his Mozambican jetlag to meet me (again!) during NSO (New Student Orientation).

We were engaged this past June on Martha’s Vineyard. Jake knew that this stretch of beach, framed by the sacred Gay Head Cliffs, was special to me, because my family visited Aquinnah nearly every summer. However, he did not know that there was a nude beach just a few steps further east. Luckily, the weather was on our side; it was too cold for even the heartiest of Massachusetts’ nudists, and our proposal photos were blessedly free of NSFW photobombers.