The first time their paths crossed was on the basketball court at their older brother’s shared 4th/5th grade Upward basketball team. Although neither of them remembers seeing each other way back then, this was the first invisible string tying them together. In actuality their story started on the tennis court when Sharon was in 7th grade and Daniel in 8th. They had to play each other because they were #1 singles at rival middle schools. Sharon was a tennis prodigy, destined to play 6 years of high school varsity tennis, and Daniel was a scrappy player trying to make a statement win to fulfill his dream of playing up on the high school team with his brother. Safe to say, Sharon did not stop Daniel from achieving his dreams! Later that year, they both started playing up on the high school team. Come the Spring of 2015, when Sharon was a freshman and Daniel was a sophomore, their paths were more intertwined than ever. Outside of seeing each other on the court, they now both went to the same school, had many friends in common, and even took the same engineering classes at the Arvin Center. Every facet of Daniel’s life pointed him towards Sharon, including one of his best friends and doubles partner, who also happened to be Sharon’s friend and neighbor. Sharon caught wind that Daniel thought she was cute, and Daniel started watching her matches. Sharon bravely got Daniel’s phone number from her mom who had used it to coordinate tennis leagues in the past and texted Daniel with a solid pickup line about giving him her mom's highly desired cookies ahead of regionals. After months of tennis and playing every Wii and GameCube game, they finally started dating on July 16, 2015. Over the next few years of high school, they fought hard to make it to the State Tennis Tournament together, toured colleges, went through the KY Governor's Scholars Program separately (their first taste of long distance), and took the Aerospace Engineering intensive together. Eventually the day came that Sharon had to drive with Daniel's parents to drop him off at college. Throughout college, Sharon and Daniel endured years of long distance all thanks to the Aerospace Engineering curriculum for mismatching school and co-op semesters. They ended up spending a cumulative of 3.5 years long distance between Louisville, Cincinnati, Virginia, and even San Diego. In the Summer of 2020, they moved into their first apartment in Viriginia together while on co-op. That fall on, they spent the last two years of college finishing undergrad and their MBA in a shared apartment in Cincinnati. Sharon, although a year behind Daniel, landed a job offer with Aurora Flight Sciences, which gave Daniel the opportunity to follow Sharon somewhere for once – even though he had to move 8 months ahead of her. In Spring of 2023, Sharon finally reunited with Daniel after their final bout of long distance. It was here that joining a random kickball league on the National Mall led them to meet some of their best friends. Finally, Daniel decided to propose on a trip to Europe in May of 2025. He poured blood, sweat, and money into designing a special ring and creating a moment that would capture their story that spanned almost 10 years. Sharon, like many trips and occasions prior, made sure to be prepared in case this was the moment he decided to do it. However, before going on the trip, she texted one of her best friends saying she thought there was nothing calculating in Daniel’s head, which Daniel took as his greatest accomplishment. A few days later on a sunny Monday evening in Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel, Germany – the origin place of all fairy tale stories – and with the help of Sharon's brother James and sister Kayleigh, Daniel finally bent the knee and asked Sharon to marry him. Later that year, their family expanded with the addition of their puppy, Mosa, who has brought Sharon and Daniel even closer as they prepare to say I do!

We are both extremely grateful for everyone coming to our wedding to celebrate over a decade of loving each other and the many more years ahead! We have grown up together, seen our families grow up, held each other through loss, celebrated through good times, and cheered each other on to chase our dreams, even if it meant being apart from one another. We are so happy to finally be a family in one place, with our little Mosa to spend it with. We have been through many challenging times together, and proved that through those times, we are each other's most trusted teammate and partner. We are so excited to come together as one family and share one of the most cherished experiences we will ever have on September 5th.