Our story begins back in 2002 when we met while attending the same middle school and playing on the same soccer team. For a while Beth's dad was even Mike's soccer coach! While we didn't always see eye to eye at that point, (or as Mike likes to put it "I picked on you because I liked you") we did grow to be quite close friends throughout school. By the time high school was over, we were always there for the one another when one of us needed advice, a night out, or just someone to lean on. In the summer of 2017 that friendship became even closer and after a few weeks began to become a romantic relationship that had grown out of a 15 year friendship. After dating for about a year and a half, we decided to take the next step and we moved in with each other in the spring of 2019. On July 29th 2019, Mike asked Beth to go out to dinner after work. He was convinced that she knew what was going on but she actually had no idea. We went to dinner in Port Washington and then went for a walk out to the light house. When Mike stopped half way out on the breakwater, Beth thought he was joking (again) and started to walk away; but he managed to convince her that this time he was serious and proposed to her. She said yes and now we will be saying our 'I Do's" on September 10th of 2021!