Swipe Right... It's Fate! Justine being new to the D.C. area and Chris being single, Justine and Chris both decided to give the popular dating app “Tinder” a chance in the summer of 2016. While scrolling through profiles one day, Justine “matched” with a cute (and tall!) guy named Chris who happened to only be a few miles away. They made small talk and exchanged numbers and continued chatting via text. Justine and Chris texted for a few days, but Justine didn’t think too much of it as she had grown uninterested with the app and had planned to stop texting Chris, too. On Friday of the same week that they exchanged numbers, Justine went to happy hour with some law school friends that were in town. While sitting at the bar, Justine looked up and saw someone enter the bar who looked very familiar, but she couldn't figure out how she knew this person because she was new to the area and didn't know many people yet. After some intense pondering, it dawned on her— it was Chris! Completely by chance, Chris had happened to visit the same bar that Justine was at! Before leaving the bar, Justine walked up to Chris to confirm that it was actually him and to introduce herself in person; Chris texted Justine again within minutes of their formal meeting. Their first date was the following Friday, and the rest is history!

One of Justine's best friends was in town for what she told Justine was a "continuing nursing education" seminar, so they decided to make a weekend out of it. Justine gathered some girlfriends to go to brunch and then to Howard's homecoming tailgate... or so she thought. As they had done dozens of times before, Justine and her friends got dolled up for bottomless brunch. While at brunch at La Vie on the Wharf, Justine was sitting with her back to the door looking out over the waterfront. Suddenly, she heard gasps and lots of footsteps behind her and when she turned around to see what the commotion was, she was greeted by Chris on one bended knee surrounded by some of her closest friends and family and a photographer! Unbeknownst to Justine, Chris had been working with Justine's best friends for months to pull off this surprise which involved family and friends traveling from different states to be a part of their special moment.