They met at Gina's family's restaurant when Joe was 17 and Gina was 21. Joe was delivering pizza in his Barney-purple Nissan Altima that you could hear from a mile away and Gina was in and out of the restaurant while exploring her makeup career.

Joe's beautiful mother's 50th birthday. They planned to go to the Liberty House for dinner and celebration. Joe was weirdly nervous about what he was going to wear and was sweating quite a bit before leaving the house. This was followed by a series of texts and phone calls from his father that one of the dogs had gotten loose so his parents and sister were going to be late, but to "order him a Coke for when he gets there." When they arrived it was drizzling a bit. Joe wanted to go for a walk but Gina had just done her hair and makeup and was not willing to ruin it for a walk in the rain. Joe basically stared at the sky asking for it to stop raining, and it magically did. They went for a walk with the beautiful New York City skyline in the background, Gina holding Joe's mother's birthday gift in hand and Joe trying to find the words to say. They started talking about how they both put on a few pounds of happy weight since they started dating. Joe then said they would need to lose weight for the wedding. Gina asked him what wedding he was talking about at which point he blurted out "Gina, I love you and cannot wait to the spend the rest of my life with me" .....yes, Joe was so nervous that he proposed to himself. Gina got the hint when he was down on one knee with a beautiful diamond ring that it was indeed her, he wanted to marry and she of course said "Yes". They were then greeted by all of their parents and siblings who were so happy for them and enjoyed their first dinner as the future Mr. and Mrs. Poland.