The beginning of Kathleen and Andrew’s story starts with a question—how the heck do two Loyola Greyhounds end up in Nashville, Tennessee? To answer that question, we have to go back about 10 years. Andrew arrived at Loyola University Maryland in 2016, and Kathleen followed a year later. Though they never officially met, they were frequent background characters in each other’s college experience. Kathleen was on the track team, and Andrew was a member of Army ROTC. They seemed to live in entirely different worlds (mostly because Kathleen actually studied in The Study), yet they unknowingly crossed paths again and again—heading to class, passing through the dining hall, dreading early morning workouts, and lingering over brunch downtown. At the time, they had no idea they were quietly stepping into the prologue of their future love story. After graduation, they went their separate ways and didn’t see each other again… until life brought them back together in Nashville, Tennessee. In the fall of 2021, both Andrew and Kathleen moved to the Nashville area—Andrew for his first duty station in the U.S. Army, and Kathleen to earn her master’s degree at Vanderbilt. By October, they quickly realized their proximity thanks to social media. Texting began with something like—“Wait, you went to Loyola?! What the heck are you doing in Nashville?!” A week later Andrew asked Kathleen on a date. Their first date took place at Barcelona Wine Bar, where Andrew arrived 15 minutes early and Kathleen arrived 30 minutes late (Balance, am I right?). From endless concerts, late nights in Midtown and on Broadway, and picnic dates in Centennial Park to many months spent apart and hard career transitions—their Nashville chapter unfolded as a testament to devotion: marked by adventure, strengthened by distance, and bound together by something spontaneous, joyful, and unmistakably meant to be. In August 2024, Kathleen and Andrew moved to the Washington, D.C. area to pursue career dreams and be closer to family. In June 2025, they got engaged and found themselves back at Barcelona Wine Bar—this time in Washington, D.C., and this time as fiancé and fiancée. They knew immediately they wanted to tie the knot at Loyola—the place that connected them from the very beginning. Their story began as passers-by on a college campus, a single thread of gold invisibly binding them and quietly guiding them back to that very place nearly ten years later to become husband and wife. They are overjoyed to celebrate in a place that holds such profound meaning for them both, surrounded by all of their favorite people.