Neither of us are sure of exactly how and when we met each other, but sometime around the end of 2014, we serendipitously started running in the same circles. Before Erica could form an opinion about whether to place Pat in the friend zone, he quickly dodged and asked to be her plus-one to her own law school's Barrister's Ball. Real bold. A few very well-planned dates in, we quickly realized how different we were: Trojan vs. Bruin, meat-lover vs. carb-extraordinaire, extrovert vs. introvert, computer nerd vs. bookworm, and the list goes on and on. But thanks to the olive theory and a mutual love of good wine, and for each other, here we are five years later getting ready to say "I Do"!