we're getting married

We met at a rugby party when Max helped Sarah get her friend out of a sticky situation. He friended her on Facebook the next day and it took her a week to get up the nerve to message him and thank him.

Sarah and Max went on their first date about a week after they started talking every day over Facebook. Max took a shot of whiskey before texting Sarah to ask if she wanted to go geocaching since she was studying geography and had never heard of it. She said yes and they had a fun walk in the woods where Sarah was convinced Max was going to murder her. Afterward, they stopped by his famous Davie Circle house so Max could grab his keys and take them both to Cookout.

Max and Sarah went to Charleston for a long weekend at the end of their first summer together. It was one of many places they would travel together during their first three years, including Savannah, New York City, Prague, Budapest, and more!

Three years of fun later, Sarah graduated from college and the pair moved to Austin, TX together.

Unable to wait to get a dog, Sarah and Max adopted their first pet together: a hamster named Beef. Beef lived for 2.5 years - a respectably long life for a hamster - and had a famously large and difficult-to-move cage.

After almost exactly four years together, Sarah and Max finally adopted their first dog: Archie. Known for his goofy behavior, freckly face, and lack of bones, Archie came from the streets and now sleeps on a memory foam dog bed.

After a year and a half in Covid “lockdown,” Sarah and Max took a trip to Utah and Colorado. On their first day in Ouray, CO, they woke up before dawn and took a rented Jeep up to Yankee Boy Basin, beating the crowds by a long shot. After a steep climb that would seem much less death-defying by the end of the day, Sarah (who was not driving) insisted they pull off so she could have a break. They ascended a nearby bluff on foot and, looking out over the sunrise at 13,000 feet, Max got down on one knee and asked Sarah to marry him. Lightheaded from the climb, the altitude, and the certainty that he was going to ask sometime that morning (he put on a shirt with buttons to go hiking, you do the math), Sarah said yes.