There's no more romantic setting than a Halloween party, and no more romantic costumes than Archie Andrews and a Beer Maiden. Add in some temp tats, extensive D&D talk, and karaoke to Grease's "You're the One That I Want" (Kaitlin is the better singer, but she's nice about it), and the chemistry was inevitable. It took Kaitlin two weeks and a minor intervention by the maid of honor to realize that we were flirting and not just friends. In her defense, she lived in NYC and Conor lived in DC; dating was ambitious. But we did it anyway! We had our first date on Valentine's Day, 2020. Then a pandemic hit. We have spectacular timing. But still; we dated anyway. We finally moved in together in 2021, ending the long nightmare of long distance, and the rest is history.