Katelyn and Joe met at Illinois State University in 2013, while working at Elroy’s, a local Sports Bar, in downtown Bloomington. They regularly worked their evening shifts together, with Katelyn bartending and Joe in the kitchen working as a “chef”. A strong friendship blossomed out of their many long nights together at the bar. The two continued working together for just over a year. Joe then graduated in 2014, but made regular trips back to ISU the following year to visit friends and inevitably to stop by and say hi to Katelyn. After Katelyn graduated in 2015, the two seemed to potentially part ways for good, but fate intervened. In Fall 2016, Joe came across Katelyn’s name while perusing his phone and deleting old contacts. Just in case their paths crossed again, Joe decided to keep her contact info. The next day, after matching with Katelyn on the popular dating app “Bumble”, he texted her. “What’s the buzz?” was all it took to spark up their relationship. Reminiscent of their time at Elroy’s, they went on their first date at Draft Picks, another local sports bar, and nearly 2 years later that is where they got engaged.