As with all great love stories, ours starts in New Jersey. The Cozy Tavern in Bogota, in 2013, to be exact. Max was managing a New Jersey State Senate Campaign, and Mollie was managing the re-election for the Mayor of Hoboken. When we met, Max was telling stories to a group of guys, of which one of those guys was a friend Mollie met in her professional travels in Montana (Axel Owen). Over time, we became friends and stayed friends into our next campaign, which took Max to Salem, MA, and Mollie to Anchorage, AK. But everything changed when Max accidentally left Mollie a voicemail while he was at a bachelor party for one of his childhood best friends (Clinton Wickers). In that voicemail, Max had pocket-dialed (yes, phones still pocket -dialed in 2014) Mollie, and on that message, Max told his friends that he would marry her someday. That pocket-dial turned into a grand gesture. Max flew to Anchorage and on a cold November night at the Buckaroo Club parking lot, he asked Mollie to be his girlfriend. Enter a series of escalating dares that led to our first shared Thanksgiving with Mollie’s family in Pittsburgh and culminated in moving into our first home together in Richmond, VA. We have spent most of our shared lives on the road over the last eight years — 12 states but who’s counting — defending Democracy, fighting for candidates and elected officials who stand up for families like ours, while building an untraditional life that we love. We are so excited for you to join us to celebrate the next chapter together, with minimal amounts of dares but lots of love along the way.