Mike and Julie met in Boston at Julies friend Tia’s, birthday party. Mike and Tia were in grad school together at Simmons College in Boston. Julie and Mike began dating shortly after meeting. Julie and Mike spent a lot of time in Somerville, MA where Mike lived with his sister Danielle. In 2020, Julie and Mike moved to Phoenix, AZ to pursue grad school, job opportunities and some adventure. Julie and Mike have spent the past 4 years in Arizona, traveling and seeing all that the west coast has to offer before recently moving back to the Boston area. In 2022, when Julie was home visiting friends and family in Massachusetts, Mike flew there to surprise Julie and ask her to marry him. Julie and Mike got engaged on August 6th of 2022 on Cranes beach in Ipswich, MA.