Our story began when Danielle joined Falmouth Fire as a live in student. She was to report to Matt, a Lieutenant, while there. Matt told her to clean the downstairs bathroom at training one night. The bathroom was used mostly by the Police Officers who stopped in when they needed to go and they always left it a mess, so Danielle refused to clean it. That did not go over well. Our story got off to a rocky start, Danielle did not want to look at him, let alone report to him. Thanks to Danielle's best friend, Abigail, things began to change.... Matt and Danielle started hanging out and quickly became close friends. Shortly before Danielle graduated college, Matt and Danielle made things official and began dating. Here they are 6 years later, finally getting married!

We had spent the day with Matt's family at an Easter Egg hunt...When we got home, Matt started cooking dinner, a chicken in the cast iron skillet... Danielle was looking out the front door across the lawn with Maggie by her side. She heard him go downstairs and open the safe. Danielle was thinking to herself, what does he need in the safe to cook a chicken? Then, Matt closed the door between the garage and basement (later she learned this was to make her think he was getting something out of the freezer) and walked upstairs. Matt came up behind her, Danielle thought he was going to give her a huge bear hug but, instead... He said "Danielle." so she spun around to him on one knee and he asked "Danielle, will you marry me?" She asked him "are you serious?" probably 15 times... Her answer was, of course "YES!" And so begins the rest of our lives!