Like many modern love stories, Matt & Sonia met through online dating (Bumble)! Our first date was a walk around Wash Park in Denver with Sonia's diva of a dog, Cricket. A walk around the park soon turned into coffee over at a nearby local favorite, Wash Perk. It was in the second half of the date that both Matt & Sonia realized there may be something there, which they both agree likely happened at the very same moment while bonding over their love for Lake Dillon and a heart for foster care. Matt popped the question in Boulder under the guise of a friend's going away party. He enlisted the help of Sonia's friend to create a fake flyer to invite her to an event a month out, only for her to decline as she already had a birthday party to go to that night. He then worked with those mutual friends to devise a plan and have the birthday girl cancel on Sonia the day before knowing she'd tell him her schedule has opened up. Little did she know, Matt had rented a beautiful home on the hillside in Boulder that overlooked the flatirons to surprise Sonia that evening.