Jack and Nicole met on Valentine's day 2015 on a bus ride from Florence, Italy (where they were both studying abroad) to Prague, Czech Republic. Nicole overheard Jack say he was attending UNC, and thought it was the perfect conversation opener as she was attending UNCW. Although they did not start dating until 2017, they kept in touch over the next couple of years. Jack took Nicole on a lunch date when she interviewed for a job in Charlotte and took her to dinner after her second day on the new job (he didn't hide his eagerness!). In the past 6 years they've navigated their twenties, changed jobs, traveled to many new places, created a home together, picked up new hobbies, gone to MANY weddings and increased their vinyl collection quite a bit (special thanks to the father of the groom, Scott Bermes for that!)