Richard and Michelle met at Patuxent High School, in Ms. Brown's Pre-Calculus class. Michelle was a sophomore and Richard was a junior. Being the first class of the day, neither was yet awake enough to remember much about those interactions. By the next year though, they shared several mutual friends and another class. When college rolled around, they went on their first date - Red Robin and a walk on the beach. Despite being polar opposites in most respects, they changed each other for the better. Richard describing his increasingly difficult engineering homework problems inspired a renewed love of math in Michelle, which led to a math minor in college. Michelle rambling incessantly about Plato, Simone de Beauvoir, Thích Nhất Hạnh and others brought out Richard's hidden philosophical mind. Once they moved in together, their families began asking when marriage would come. That was 7 years ago - and it's finally here!