Unlike many of our friends' successful online dating love stories, ours has a more traditional or what some may say 'Old School' beginning. We both spent several years outside of Minnesota working on our careers. Steve's path took him out East to Connecticut while Kelly sought the warmer/dryer climate of Texas. In the fall of 2015 a mutual friend of theirs (Travis - one of our Groomsmen) had planted the seed to both of us that we would be a perfect match. A first date to Freehouse Brewpub it was quickly realized that the two of us shared a love for craft beer, sports, adventure, and close relationships with family and friends. One date quickly turned into two, then three, then just our new normal.

That new normal eventually brought us a dog (Winston), countless adventures traveling, too many breweries to fill Kelly's cabinet of beer mugs, and memories that will last our lifetime. For us we never quite knew when to tell people we were officially, official, so we always landed on our first date. The day it all began for the two of us. Fast forward to two years later and we were planning to celebrate that anniversary, but Steve kept putting it off. He eventually asked if we could celebrate on the 16th because the MN Wild were playing. No suspicion was brought on as we often went to sporting events/dinners to celebrate things. That morning we decided to make a nice breakfast (again, not completely out of the norm) and then open gifts that we got one another. Disclaimer: the gift for Steve had been under the Christmas tree since December 3rd, the real anniversary date. Steve's response to where Kelly's present was: it's a surprise. After breakfast and bloody mary's we started to open gifts. Steve tore into a new pair of wedding shoes (go figure) and Kelly slowly opened a shoe box size gift. Upon opening, Steve was down on one knee and to what we both believe saying very sweet things and asking Kelly to marry him. There were tears, hugs, and the YES. We cannot wait to share our love story with you all. Thank you for being a part of each of our lives day in and day out.