Matt moved from Atlanta to Chicago in September of 2018 and began working at Oak Street Health in HR, where Kelsey was also working as a recruiter since she graduated. After numerous encounters in the office and at happy hours, it wasn’t until July of 2019 that Matt built up the courage to ask Kelsey out for drinks. You may be asking yourself: you’re both in HR and work at the same company, isn’t that against the rules? Love has no rules. We started officially dating in December of 2019 and the world challenged us with a global pandemic early on in our relationship. Through many game nights, at home dinner dates and binge watching TV shows and movies; we made it through COVID and still wanted to spend even more time together. We moved in together in July of 2022 and after almost 4 years of dating, got engaged in November of 2023. Matt proposed in Milton Lee Olive Park with a backdrop of the beautiful Chicago skyline and we celebrated together at home with the same meal Matt made Kelsey on our 2nd date (the best vodka pasta with meatballs). The next night, Matt surprised Kelsey with a friends and family engagement dinner at one of their favorite local Lincoln Park spots, Willow Room, which went on far too late into the night. Since the engagement, we have been avidly planning our wedding, our future together, and introduced a spunky little puppy, Murphy (Mini Bernedoodle), into our lives in July of 2024. Murphy sadly won’t be at the wedding as mom and dad need to let loose on June 14th, 2025.