Katie and Matt met on February 6, 2014 at a house party in Houghton, MI, where Matt was a student at Michigan Tech. Katie, (who was a student at Tech's rival school, Northern Michigan University), had gone to Houghton with a bunch of her friends from NMU to join her Tech friends in celebrating the Winter Carnival festivities occurring that weekend. During a conversation with one of said Tech friends, Katie was introduced to Matt after he jumped into the conversation with a cheeky remark where he asked Katie for a kiss! Katie did indeed kiss him and, both of them feeling sparks, they spent the rest of the night getting to know each other. Matt walked Katie home at the end of the night, they exchanged numbers, and made plans to attend a jazz cabaret fundraiser that Katie's co-ed music fraternity was putting on the following evening- their first date! The rest- as they say- is history!