Our story technically begins in the fall of 2006 (fourteen years ago!!!!!!!!!!!) when Rachel was a freshman in the UMass Marching Band and Steve was the suave (lol) and intimidating upperclassmen in the drumline. They spent many a drunk night “together”, partying with “400 of their closest friends” at house parties (there are photographs, oh are there photographs!!!), though Rachel was far too scared and intimated to ever strike up a conversation with Steve back then. Indeed, it wasn’t until 2009 when Rachel plucked up the courage to reach out to Steve (then a 1L) (on Facebook nonetheless!!!!) for some advice about her law school application. Steve responded quickly and friendly as ever, bemoaning the tires that are your first year of law school (and in particular CivPro, if you know, you know) and offering to give Rachel samples of his personal statement (which happened to be about the UMass Marching Band, surprise, surprise). Then life happened – Steve graduates law school, passes the bar, moves to D.C. then back to Massachusetts. Rachel likewise graduates law school (with some help from Steve, see above 😊), passes the bar, and begins to settle into life in Boston. Fast forward to the fall of 2016, when Rachel’s mom sees a psychic who tells her that Rachel will be marrying a lawyer with the first initial of “S”, ‘but mom I don’t *KNOW* any lawyers with that first initial’, she says. A few months later, after a NYE dinner where Rachel’s friends encourage her to “get out there” and date, Rachel and Steve match on Bumble and the rest is history. Now, after fourteen years of knowing each other, four years of dating, tons of laughs, lots of travel, raising a Boston Terrier, a global pandemic, and a one-year engagement, we can’t wait to tie the knot and write our next chapter!