We kind of met twice! The first time, we were both orientation leaders at Purdue, and I was assigned as his supervisor - but don't listen to Luke, because he'll say that I 'abused my power' to hit on him. The truth is that we barely interacted because he was a second-time leader, so I knew he didn't need much 'supervision,' so I barely knew him. After that year, we didn't see each other at all for a while. Then, our senior year, I was going out with my best friend and one of her friends, and her friend asked if he could bring his roommate along. Enter: Luke (now, not under my supervision lol). The four of us ended up becoming super close as a friend group, even going so far as to plan a trip to Europe together for after graduation! Luke and I would hang out together a lot but we never wanted to jeopardize the friend group- or worse, the trip. But we scheduled the trip in November, and by April we decided to risk it and we started dating :) So, funny enough, some of our first dates were in crazy places in Europe (hiking the Alps, picnic in front of the Eiffel Tower, boating at Versailles, it was insane).

I somehow got Hadley back to Purdue without her suspecting anything and proposed on the hill where we’d had a picnic the morning of our graduation—back when we’d only been dating for two weeks. She was completely shocked; she was convinced the proposal was going to happen the next weekend when we were going on a trip! I had secretly coordinated with a bunch of her friends and family, so when we walked into the Purdue Union and she saw everyone there, it was a second surprise. It was amazing.