Sophe & Alex

How We Met: Our story begins in August 2016 as young 23 year olds trying to figure out the real world. Only two weeks after moving to Los Angeles to do Teach For America, Sophe’s school did an overnight retreat for the teachers in Malibu and at the end of the night she decided to go on Bumble to see if she came across any celebs or cute surfers. Even better, she came across a handsome Greek man and Sophe immediately recognized him their alma mater Chapman University (and swiped right). Fortunately for Sophe, Alex was living in Calabasas (right over the hill from Malibu) so she was in his geographical range because Alex refused to drive more than 5 miles in LA traffic. The joke was on him as Sophe actually lived in West LA and was a 1.5 hour drive after work (aka we were long distance dating in LA). Soon text conversation turned into a first date where Sophe and Alex got kicked out of the sushi restaurant because they stayed so long. From then on, Sophe and Alex became inseparable. A few months into dating they decided to add each other on social media, only to find out that they were already Facebook friends. Turns out they became Facebook friends in 2011, as college freshmen, and Alex even wrote “Happy birthday :)” on Sophe’s wall for her birthday in 2012. The jury is still out on if they ever did talk at some college party or if Alex always had his eye on Sophe. Our Relationship: The key to our relationship has always been having fun together and going on endless adventures. We love going on hikes and eating our way through LA. We both have a common love for exploring and adventure. Three months into dating we went on our first trip: a cruise to Mexico where we did everything from a ropes course to zip lining to eating our body weight in tacos. Our favorite trip was spending a week in Puerto Vallarta where we traveled to a hidden beach, snorkeled with all of the sea creatures, and played with monkeys. After two years of dating, we embarked on our biggest adventure yet: moving to Seattle and moving in together in late 2018. During our four years in Seattle, we continued our adventuring throughout the Pacific Northwest with weekend trips around Washington and Oregon, ski trips to Canada, and our favorite trip of all, an RV trip to the national parks around Washington. Let’s just say, if Alex can survive a week in an RV with Sophe and her sister then he can survive anything. Ultimately, we missed sunshine and warm weather and decided to make the move back to LA in 2022. Now, after almost 8 years together, our bond continues to grow each day with our love for each other.