We owe our meeting to the wedding of two of our closest friends- Nora and Austin (now) Diamond-Jones. As a single best man and bridesmaid, we met at their rehearsal dinner (someone skipped the rehearsal itself), and hit it off the next day at their wedding as well. As fate would have it, Robbie was living in Colorado at the time but did not rush back to Grand Junction after the wedding, and stayed locally the entire next week, so he was able to meet the entire Salpini and extended family at a UVA football tailgate the following weekend. While they can be an overwhelming bunch to even the friendliest newcomer, he did not falter, and helped take the sting out of a heartbreaking loss for at least one UVA fan in attendance. Emily and Robbie continued to talk long distance from Norfolk to Grand Junction for several months, and arranged around a third year medical student schedule to visit several times, even unintentionally spending their first Christmas and New Years together after several airline mishaps. By the next summer, Robbie moved to Norfolk to join Emily for her last year of medical school, and discovered he is more of a mountains person. But they toughed it out, made it to graduation, and moved to Charlottesville for Emily's pediatrics residency at UVA. It is there they have spent the past three years, made lots of great new friends, reconnected with old ones, worked at their dream jobs (children and helicopters respectively), and enjoyed some great wine, beer and food. Finally, on September 29th, 2019, they drove up to Robbie's favorite vista in his beloved home state of West Virginia, armed with Ivy Provisions sandwiches, and he proposed atop Dolly Sods wilderness. Emily of course said yes, and they set to work planning their big day. A global pandemic has certainly been a bump in the road, but they are ready to start their lives together no matter how the next year unfolds, and hope as many of you can join them as possible!