Our story is the typical boring love story you’ve heard a million times – Minnesota girl studies abroad at Trinity College Dublin, meets a Cavan boy, and they fall in love. The rest is history! Mary and Brian’s love story began during Mary’s semester abroad in Ireland in 2014, where they met in the kitchen of their dormitory. They bonded over a shared interest in eating pasta, the only thing they knew how to cook. After four happy months together and a heartbreaking goodbye, they were re-united in Minnesota in the summer of 2015 when Mary and Brian both did research at the University of Minnesota. After finishing their undergraduate degrees, with many visits back and forth between Minnesota and Ireland in the interim, they both rendezvoused in Boston, Massachusetts in 2016. The Boston years have seen a lot of changes in their lives, most notably a PhD in materials science and a master’s degree in nursing. Their days in Boston have been filled with dinner dates, board game nights, skiing, quarantining from pandemics, and dangling toys in front of their Abyssinian kitten, Aoife. In June 2021, they became engaged when Brian got down on one knee and proposed to Mary on Prospect Hill Park. We couldn’t be more happy to spend the rest of our lives together, and we are so excited to share our special day with all of the most important people in our lives!