That's right! For those that don't know, we met on a dating app. We are a true modern couple. Here's the story... What started as a night of boredom, as they both sat at home, Janel in Highland Park and Matt in Santa Monica, scrolling through the dating app, Tinder, endlessly rejecting people swiping left, ended with them landing on each other's profiles and both swiping right. Matt was only in town for work at the time and was heading back to San Francisco the next day after they connected. This "match" would start a two-week streak of non-stop texting before they would meet in person. The next time Matt came back into town, they had their first date. There had been so much pressure building up from their two-week text-a-thon, they didn't know if the date would live up to the hype. Matt remembers sitting in his car for 15 minutes before getting the courage to walk up to Janel's door. Janel remembers opening the door when Matt arrived and thinking "Oh, thank god, he's cute in person." Their first date was in Little Tokyo at Shojin, a vegan restaurant. This was Janel trying to be supportive of Matt's vegan diet which would soon change :). They continued the night by barhopping in Little Tokyo. This was the start of a long distance relationship with Matt in SF and Janel in LA. Matt eventually moved to Los Angeles and the rest is history.