Nick and Melissa's story starts at the climbing gym, where the only hold Nick wanted was Melissa’s hand. When his friends flew off to Thailand and he lost all his PTO in a company acquisition, he decided to make the best of a bad situation and conveniently “needed a climbing partner”—really, he just wanted to date Melissa. A rainy camping trip later, he was hunched over a nonexistent fire, lit by his cellphone, working up the courage to ask her out. She was deep in finals season during her last year of college, so he made her a carefully curated Spotify playlist—because nothing says “I like you” more than a mixtape. Then came the plot twist. Melissa graduated from college, headed to Bali, returned… and they suddenly stopped talking, avoiding eye contact at the gym like someone had just farted. (For the record: no one did) It was simply one big misunderstanding, at least that is what Nick thought! It only took Melissa to come up to Nick to say "Hey, cool new tattoo man! Oh yeah, Bali was great." Eight years later, they’ve built a life full of love, travel, climbing, laughter, 2 dogs (Yeti and Cashew) and a cat (Jojo), and—as Nick hopes—more cats. And now they’re here, finally getting married and beginning the next chapter of the story they’ve been writing ever since.