We met Memorial Day Weekend 2017 when Katy's parents were in town. After a fun dinner, Katy's parents encouraged her to go out with her friends. Phillip on the other hand did not want to go out this night, yet his friends pushed him, so he threw on a hoodie and headed out the door. Both reluctant to go out that night, ended up being the night Katy & Phillip met and started the beginning of their relationship. Knowing Katy was a BIG Pittsburgh fan, 3 nights later Phillip took Katy out for their first "official" date to watch the Penguins in the Stanley Cup. Katy showed up for the date to see Phillip with a Pens jersey in hand (he remembered Katy mentioned she didn't have one). They barely watched the game because they were talking and laughing the whole time, but the Pens did come away with the win. Katy knew Phillip REALLY liked her when he asked if she wanted to stop by a wine night with his friends on the first date. BOLD move. We went on our 2nd date two nights later, then we were pretty much inseparable after that and our story began. On December 23rd, 2019, we headed to the airport for a redeye to Pittsburgh (well Indiana, PA) for Christmas with the Dodds Family. We arrived in NY at 5am, anxious for our next flight to get us into Pitt at 9am. About to land in Pittsburgh, our flight circles for an hour then gets redirected to Dulles in VA due to fog. After 5 hours of more delays, our flight is canceled completely at 3pm on Christmas Eve. KATY HAD NO IDEA BUT PHILLIP HAD THE RING WITH HIM THIS WHOLE TIME PLANNING TO PROPROSE AFTER CHRISTMAS EVE MASS (well, that was now out the window). We found an Uber that would drive us 2.5 hours, but Katy's father was the real MVP driving 2.5 hours to meet us and take us home. Christmas morning we went to Mass, then up at the big Christmas tree, Phillip proposed to Katy in front of her family. Phillip forgot what he was going to say (when he saw Mr. Dodds staring at him) and Katy ugly cried, but it was the PERFECT day.