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Sophia & Matthew

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Matthew Thorndyke

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Sophia Cygnarowicz

Medinah Country Club

Medinah, IL

October 11

2025

How We Met (aka the match challenge)

It all started with a bet between former co-workers...

It was October of 2019 at Starcom, our previous place of employment. We accidentally showed up to work wearing a similar outfit (read same color top + bottoms), and long story short, one of our co-workers (shout out Zach) bet us both $100 to coordinate and come to work with matching outfits for the rest of the year. Someone was in it for the money and someone was in it because they had a crush on the other person (we'll let you guess who was who). Needless to say, our co-worker status was quickly elevated to friendship with our daily "what are you wearing to work today" texts. Over the next 2 months, we successfully matched outfits (with only a few questionable outfit matches which you can see on the "Match Challenge" tab) and quickly realized there was a connection after bonding over Trollis, Spongebob references and our (still) mediocre NFL teams. After the challenge ended, we both walked away with our winnings, but we weren't quite ready to leave things there. In the winter of 2020, we officially started dating and our relationship took off from there. Through a global pandemic, long distance, career changes, becoming roommates and so much more between it all, we soon realized that we wanted to build our futures together. Looking back at that first match challenge photo, neither of us thought we'd later walk away with so much more than those $100 winnings. Now, we have Starcom and matching outfits to thank for bringing us together. Some might even say we found our perfect match!

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