While strolling through West Village one summer day with her husband Michael, one of Taryn's closest friends, Anna, ran into Tony. Michael and Tony's younger brother Matt are close friends from childhood, so when they were all chatting Anna asked him if he was single. Taryn & Tony's first (and blind date) was scheduled for one rainy Friday night. She was tempted to cancel, but Tony pushed to keep it. Clad in his "Canadian tuxedo", Tony met Taryn at Crimson and Rye at 6PM. It was the first of many stops that evening as they eventually found themselves the last people dancing in the bar at 2AM with DJ Jeff. Perhaps it was the tequila shots, but Taryn had to hold her cheeks because they hurt so much from laughing. They finally departed ways 16 hours later and never looked back at life as single people.