We're getting married!

Ryan and Grace first met their Freshman year of college at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Ryan and his good friend Clay went to high school with Grace's very first college friend and she introduced Grace to her "guy friends from home." When it came time to move off campus Sophomore year, Grace and four of her friends found a house, but they needed two more people to fill all six rooms. In came Ryan & Clay. After resigning their lease for Junior year, 2020 brings the pandemic and LOTS of time spent in their college home. Ryan and Grace were in the same MIS class and spent many hours studying together. Until this point, they would swear up, down, left, and right that they were just friends. Fall of their Junior year, however, Ryan made a big move - he got a kitten. This meant Grace was constantly stopping by Ryan's room to see his cat, Dibbles, and maybe to also get to spend time with Ryan. When Grace was doing one of her many puzzles, Ryan would stay up a little later than he should to help her find just one more piece (he had to work third shift and doesn't particularly like puzzles). After some serious wing-manning from their roommate, Tyler, the pair finally admitted their feelings for each other a few days into 2021, but they said they couldn't date because they were roommates. Clearly that worked out because by February 20th, they were official. The couple graduated from college in Spring 2022 and moved together to Minneapolis to live post grad life. They now live in Uptown with their two cats, Pumpkin and Dibbles, and can't wait to get married!