Katie here! I’d like to give a little background before I get into how Mason and I met on July 6, 2017. The company I was working for at the time was expanding their outside sales team and I was “green lighted” to take one of the open positions. One of my co-workers, Kimberlee (bridesmaid), had suggested I take the position in Stamford, CT. After deliberating for an hour, I had decided to make the big move across the country. Over the months prior to my move, everyone I spoke to told me I’d meet “the one” when I moved. I thought they were crazy, this is the only time in my life (thus far) where I was glad to have been wrong. The day before I moved into my apartment in Middletown, CT I re-downloaded a dating app in the hopes of maybe making friends. Instead, I found my future husband!

September 6, 2019, our last day in Aruba. Mason and I were walking on the beach and he said, “I have to write a secret message about our trip in the sand….. you can’t look”. I turned around for a few seconds, then he tells me to turn back around. There he was, on his knees, and in the sand beside him was the message “will you marry me?”. Shocked, I fumbled over my words, “yes, of course yes!!"