Marisa and Andrew met in third grade at Hebrew School in Evergreen, Colorado. They would see each other Wednesday nights and while they were just classmates, many games of footsy were played over the years. In the 6th grade, Marisa asked/told Andrew to be her boyfriend in a Valentine's card. He said yes! Andrew was thrilled to have his first girlfriend and get his first cheek kiss. Not long after, Andrew and his family left the congregation and they lost touch. Though their lives went in very different directions, Marisa coincidentally befriended all of Andrew's high school friends from Conifer her freshman year at Colorado State University (Andrew went to CU Boulder). They would see eachother periodically at college parties, though the relationship was just friendly. Both thought of eachother through college, and while one was single, the other wasn't (and vice versa). After college, Marisa moved to Chicago and Andrew moved to Denver. One day, while scrolling through his Facebook newsfeed, Andrew saw a photo of Marisa and one of her Chicago friends-- someone he happened to meet on a trip to Israel a few years before. This gave Andrew the opportunity to start a conversation and the two became pen pals. Marisa came back to Denver occasionally to visit family and go to Bronco games, and a romance blossomed. While they dated long-distance for two years with many trips back and forth between Denver and Chicago, work and adventure brought them together and they moved in together in Greensboro, North Carolina. As they say, the rest is history! The couple has been eachother's biggest cheerleaders throuhgout life's ups and downs, gradschool, new jobs and moving to different cities. After all these years, Andrew kept the Valentine's card he received in 6th grade along with all of the notes they passed back and forth in Hebrew school. Through all of these fateful coincidences, it's clear that their love was written in the stars.

It was a beautiful winter day in Breckenridge, CO. Marisa and Andrew had rented snowshoes and were making their way across a beautiful backcountry trail. Andrew’s heart was pounding in his chest as he repeatedly reached into his jacket pocket to feel the box that held the most beautiful diamond he’d ever seen. As they approached a clearing, ahead were some people posing for pictures. Andrew turned around to Marisa and said, “Do you want to get a quick picture?” She agreed and Andrew called out to the folks ahead, “Hey, would you mind taking a picture of us?” Andrew made sure that Marisa offered her phone for the photos so that he could pull up an email that contained a song he wanted to play. It was a song they’d heard for the first time two years before in an intimate backyard performance by Anthony Ruptak & The Midnight Friends. The song, I’ll Go Where You Go, was their song. The way that the lyrics mirrored their own lives and experiences was eerily similar. As the music played and the couple snapped photos of Marisa and Andrew in the snow, Marisa looked at Andrew and asked curiously, “Why are you playing music right now?” Andrew smiled awkwardly and encouraged the couple to keep taking photos. He got down on one knee and pulled the box out of his pocket. Accidentally opening it up upside down, he quickly turned it the right way and Marisa gasped when she saw it. The couple cheered, Andrew breathed a sigh of relief, and Marisa smiled and bent over to kiss him. In all the excitement, she’d forgotten to actually say the word “Yes” and after being reminded by the photographers, shouted “Yes” with pure joy and love. The two spent the rest of the day smiling at each other, drinking champagne, and imagining the rest of their lives together as husband and wife.