Chris and Sarah met on Halloween 2016, among friends, alcohol and music. The Monks' annual Halloween party was a New Haven institution, often involving bad decisions, and often police. Sarah had spent weeks working on her costume, an amazon warrior, complete with spear, helmet, breastplate. Chris was a card against humanity, a costume graciously offered to him by Alex Balzano and Lauren Ruth. In truth, the meeting was something of a surprise, as Chris had been contemplating skipping the party that year. However, with the appropriate amount of prodding, he was convinced to join Alex and Lauren. At the party Chris managed to catch Sarah's eye.

December 1st, 2016 Chris and Sarah went on their first date. Meeting at Cask Republic in New Haven, they slowly got to know each other, travelling between New Haven and Stamford, meeting each others' friends and families. Though separated by distance and schedules once Sarah started specialty training in the State of New York, Sarah and Chris grew closer, travelling across the country to destinations like Chicago, Vermont, Florida and more, making memories and building plans for the future.

In December of 2019 Sarah's parents visited her for the holidays. Seeing an opportunity, Chris set about to find the words to ask Sarah's father for his blessing for his daughter's hand. Once satisfied with the contents of his request, Chris then translated his request to Spanish. Finally, on the day in question, Sarah and Chris conspired to distract her mother while Chris plied her father with his request. As Chris stumbled through his request, Sarah's father understood the question, and graciously offered his blessing. The die was cast, and all that was left was to ask the question which happened during COVID 19 lockdown in March 2020. As you have followed to this point, Dear Reader, I suspect you know what the answer was.