It all started with a microwave… After briefly connecting on Bumble about pet peeves and ponies, April boldly gave Emerson her phone number in hopes of meeting in person soon. A couple weeks later, the two met at Michael’s Harborside in Newburyport, MA. They sat on the rocks overlooking the Merrimac River for over an hour waiting for the table, only to realize the buzzer had gone off a half hour earlier. After a three hour long first date, Emerson asked April if she’d like to go paddleboarding with him that weekend. Two weeks later, also coined as the “quarantine phase”, they were officially together. And thus, began date nights every Tuesday, moving in together, acquiring ponies, countless burn piles, weekend getaways, daily lunchbox notes, fostering dogs, writing a cookbook, Polaroid pictures, couch-bed movie nights, and making their house their home. And although they knew early on that they were made for each other, on September 5, 2021 at their favorite spot in Newburyport, MA, Emerson asked April to marry him, to which she said a quick YES!