We're getting married!

Hi, this is Sam. People often ask Rachel and me how we ended up together, and we're never quite sure how to answer. The short story is that we met at the beginning of college, and then it took another two years and 4,542 miles for us to figure out we wanted to be together. The long story? Rachel and I first met on September 15, 2012, in the least romantic of situations: at a college party full of sweaty boys (many of whom will be disguised as men in suits at the wedding). Against all odds, we liked each other instantly. For both of us at the time, that meant spending future parties and campus run-ins avoiding each other and our feelings – but eventually they got their way. When Rachel studied abroad in Bilbao, Spain, we realized that we really wanted to be together. Hours of WhatsApp messages and one failed attempt for me to visit later, Rachel got home July 28, 2014. There aren’t many days we’ve been apart since.