It was New Year’s Eve 2019 in Brooklyn, and Elizabeth was going to a house party hosted by a friend of a friend of her now bridesmaid Aly. Elizabeth and Aly had asked their friend, the one who had invited them to the party, if there would be any single guys at the party. Aly’s friend said that one of the hosts, Matt, was single, and she—who Elizabeth had just met—wanted to set them up. Listening to Aly’s friend gush about Matt in the days leading up to the party (and fielding questions like “When is the wedding?” from everyone in Aly’s friend’s circle), Elizabeth was nervous, and skeptical that this guy would live up to the hype. Meanwhile, Matt was also skeptical, but for a completely different reason. His roommate, David, insisted on throwing a New Year’s Eve Party, but Matt and his other roommate, Jimmy, didn’t really know anyone who would be in the city for the holiday. But David said he would “bring the party”—only to ditch them at the last minute. For most of the night, it was a party of two. Jimmy was in on the setup arrangement; Matt was blissfully unaware. Until around 11 p.m., when a group of Jimmy’s friends showed up. Among them was Elizabeth, who realized that the party was just one block from her old apartment in Crown Heights. Matt smiled at Elizabeth, and Elizabeth, who was very aware of the pressure she was under, was content to ignore him the whole night. But Aly, the tried-and-true wingwoman that she is, brought Elizabeth over to the kitchen, where Matt was brewing a batch of his famous cider. After a few minutes of small talk, she excused herself from being the third wheel, leaving them alone to talk about how delicious his cider is and their shared experience of going to grad school in the U.K. At the end of the night, Matt asked Elizabeth for her number (writing, for reasons unbeknownst to her, the seven digits down on a small slip of paper), and asked her on a date the next day. A few days later, they went to her favorite cocktail and bakery shop (RIP Butter & Scotch 1.0), and, in another three months, they inadvertently moved in together (thanks, COVID!) The rest, as they say, is history, with Matt asking Elizabeth to be his wife at the very spot where she asked him to be her boyfriend in early 2020. And to Aly’s friends who teased her about her future wedding to Matt, she can now proudly tell them when the wedding is: June 2023.