This story depends on who you ask. If you ask Ryan, we met on the Johnny O's rooftop in Madison, WI summer after our Junior year at the University of Wisconsin. If you ask Taylor, the unlikely Madison homeless street performer by the name of Art Paul Schlosser was the catalyst. Either way, we fell in love as students in Madison, Ryan followed Tay to Chicago, and Ryan finally worked up the courage after 9 years & a puppy to ask Tay to marry him.

It was a Monday - Taylor's only day off from work over an 8-week stretch of summer that wasn't already filled with travel or weddings. Ryan recruited some of Tay's friends to nonchalantly convince her to go for a lunchtime walk with the pups. After setting the scene in our apartment, Ryan stood waiting as Tay returned home completely surprised... a surprise only 9 years in the making.