Juliet and Shane’s story starts like many great love stories do — at a college fundraiser… where she was with her boyfriend. Shane spotted her across the room and immediately told a mutual friend to keep him in the loop if she ever became single. (She did.) They dated for a couple of months in 2017, but the timing wasn’t quite right. Over the years, Shane would pop up with a birthday text — the smooth, quiet persistence of someone not quite ready to give up. A few years (and one Army career) later, Shane was driving across the country when he reached out to Juliet to catch up. He told her she was “the one that got away”, which she found somewhat insane, but agreed to meet up anyway. Soon he was flying her to Boston for a weekend of apple picking, Gregory Alan Isakov, and general rom-com behavior. And it worked. They’re doing the legal bit at the courthouse—and saving the real joy for the party with all of you!