Lyness and Marcus’ story actually begins a decade earlier. Only no one, including themselves, knew it yet. The two lovebirds originally met one summer in the Mile High City - Denver, Colorado - after one jumped in the other’s DMs (we’ll let you guess who’s who). What followed was a sweet, whirlwind summer romance, the kind you see in the movies. But, as sometimes happens, their season of love was cut short by circumstances outside of their control. Lyness returned to college. Marcus returned to Tinder. With distance and time, their communications eventually came to an end. Seven summers would pass before fate would intervene to set in motion another collision course for the pair. Randomly, Marcus was invited to join a mutual friend in Chicago, Illinois--a city he had never visited. With a population of three million strangers, Lyness and Marcus somehow found themselves out on the same weekend, at the same time, at the same event. They were re-introduced as friends, but so began a new journey. This one leading them towards a partnership, an engagement, and now a union as husband and wife! We’re humbled, happy, and grateful that our friends and family will be able to join us as our love story comes full circle.