By the time this wedding rolls around, we’ll have been together for 14 years—which means 14 years of game nights, endless inside jokes, funny bickering, and heated debates over life’s most important questions… like “What exactly counts as a sandwich?” and countless hypothetical scenarios that may or may not be settled. We met during sophomore year at Mansfield University, bonding over work in the Maple dorm—so yes, you could say love literally bloomed in that building. Sam has patiently weathered Tess’s ambitious pursuits with the calm of a saint, while Tess has cheered on Sam through all the ups, downs (literally hiking mountains), and everything in between. Sure, we may have done a few things out of order—like buying a house before saying “I do”—but our journey has always been uniquely ours. Here’s to many more laughter-filled nights, big adventures, silly debates, and, yes, plenty more exacerbated sighs—because life with your person is always worth it.