We met in college. Well technically just before, when we both attended a "summer weekend" event before starting our freshman year at Washington University in St. Louis. We didn't *really* start dating until more than three years later, but we've been friends ever since. We finally went on our first date in December of our junior year, right before Scott was about to leave for a semester abroad (timing was not our strong suit). We kept in close contact that semester, and we both ended up with internships in Manhattan during the summer between our junior and senior years. We spent a lot of time together that summer, and, when classes started that fall and we'd both returned to St. Louis, we decided we should officially say we were dating (to the great relief of our friends, who had been calling us idiots behind our backs for a while). We've been together ever since. After graduating in 2014, Julia moved to Manhattan to work in a lab. Scott got a communications consulting job in DC a few months later. For two years, we kept up the "mid-distance" phase of our relationship, and we saw each other nearly every weekend (with the exception of the "snow-pocalypse" in 2015), trading off who took the 4.5-hour bus ride each week. In spring of 2016, we decided we were done living so far apart, so Julia moved to DC. We moved in together and have lived in downtown DC ever since (surviving three moves). In 2019, we decided it was time to officially tie the knot. We found an engagement ring together in November, and Scott proposed in our apartment, over breakfast (Julia's favorite meal) in December, promising many more years of amazing breakfasts (and other meals) together. We began planning our wedding, hoping to have it in the fall of the coming year.

We originally planned our wedding for October 31, 2020. But obviously a wedding in 2020 wasn’t in the cards. We decided that we’d already spent enough time waiting to get engaged, though, so we still tied the knot! In fact, we did it at home, in our pajamas (thanks, DC, for allowing us to marry ourselves!) and then had a small gathering of our closest family and a few friends via Zoom in Scott’s parents’ backyard.