We met and became friends in our seventh grade Language Arts class. Still friends, fast forward to sophomore year of high school where Deanna was Matt's "secret fan" for wrestling. Matt obviously developed a crush on Deanna (she makes a great PB&J). Deanna eventually did junior year... but bad timing. Finally, Memorial Day weekend of 2014, Deanna was Matt's DD and they shared past feelings; however, Deanna was going back to Europe. Two summers later, Matt came back from the UK/Alaska and we were finally just friends, hanging out everyday(?). Then, Matt went to Harvey's Lake and invited Deanna to party (which she obviously couldn't turn down) where she made a great impression on Matt's family. We still weren't sure our relationship status until two weeks later when Deanna came up to CT. We then went on our first date at Chilis (obviously). The next day we decided to give it a try, shook on it (be sure to watch for that at the ceremony) and decided to keep liking each other everyday since.

For Matt's Spring Break we went to our favorite place- Portland, Maine. One day, we braved a snow storm to go to Allagash Brewery (Matt's favorite brewery), then walked to Definitive Brewery (Deanna's favorite brewery) and on our walk to Austin Street Brewery (our favorite) we stopped for a kiss when Matt asked to "make it forever" and dropped down to one knee. From there Deanna blacked out but according to Matthew, Deanna froze until Matt reminded her she had to answer and she of course said yes (she had been getting manicures for months) and proceeded to give the wrong hand. We then went and grabbed our favorite beer, the Patina, from Austin Street.