It all started as a joke for Sonya. She joined online dating because her friends encouraged her to create a profile and share the comments from the interesting boys in the world. For a long time she wanted to escape the cold long depressing winters of Rochester and suddenly had the brilliant idea of changing her location on her dating app to state "Tampa." Niko messaged Sonya and they hit it off. There were plenty of Skype dates, Sonya being from New York and Niko from Florida), lots of texting, calling, etc. Sonya visited Niko during his Spring Break in 2014 and it was love since then. We have had highs and lows, but we have always persevered and fallen harder over time. We have a beautiful boy, whom you all know as silly Dimitri. And he can't wait to finally have his parents be married off and enjoy this beautiful day with all the amazing people in our lives.