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Always & Forever

Jonah Gillens

&

Ivana Rematt

#GonnaBeGillens

September 12, 2026

Waldorf, MD
79 days79 d22 hours22 h46 minutes46 min

How We Met

It all started with a gut feeling. While handing out resumes for a summer job, Ivana suddenly felt pulled to stop by LongHorn Steakhouse and check on her application. She walked in, and within minutes, she was hired. Coincidentally, it was also where Jonah was working at the time. Just a few days later, she started her first shift. Jonah had just returned from vacation, and the moment we worked together, something clicked; it became effortless, and the connection was instant and undeniable. Jonah jokingly called Ivana a “she-devil,” and she knew she couldn’t let that comment slide. What followed was days of teasing, laughter, and the slow, unmistakable realization that we were falling in love. We spent countless nights after work down at the Leonardtown Wharf, talking until the early hours, listening to the waves, munching on Sonic Blasts, and getting to know each other in that quiet, perfect way that only happens when two people are meant to meet. About a month later, we went on our first official date to an art museum, where Ivana decided to playfully challenge one of the pieces of art, a tarp painted to look like the sky. She got so passionately worked up about the tarp that Jonah knew, right then and there, that he had found the one.