We met during a bar crawl! A long-time friend of Amanda's family, named Gene, has hosted an annual bar crawl in Old Town Alexandria for more than 20 years. Gene also happens to work with the company that Peter began working for in October 2016, which proves that this is such a small world! In the hopes that Peter would come out and meet new people, Gene invited Peter to the bar crawl. Peter didn't come until a few bars in, while Amanda had already been at the crawl for a while... so you can imagine the first meeting. When Peter walked in, Amanda went right up to him and excitedly said: "Are you part of the crawl!?"

After nearly 3 years of dating, Peter proposed to Amanda on a beautiful Friday evening at Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, California. It was just a few days before the end of summer vacation in Peter's home state, and one of the last nights visiting Lake Tahoe. Emerald Bay had quickly become a special place when Peter first took Amanda there in the summer of 2018. That was also Amanda's first time visiting California. After Peter proposed, they FaceTimed some of Amanda's family, and then drove back to the Tahoe house where Peter's parents were waiting, none-the-wiser, watching TV. When they walked into the house, Peter's parent's backs to them, his mom asked how Emerald Bay was and if it was busy. Peter said that it wasn't too bad, then paused. Peter then said, "Well, break out the champagne!"