Matt and Sarah met while working at IRONMAN. Since they worked in separate departments there wasn’t much opportunity for the two to work together but Matt was curious about the new graphic designer and Sarah was wanting to know more about the cute guy on the other side of the office. It wasn’t until a USF football game that the two finally met through a mutual friend from work and they immediately hit it off. Matt was traveling a lot for work and right after the two met he had to leave for a month long work trip, not ideal timing! Sarah knew that when people in the office starting traveling back from Kona, Hawaii ( IRONMAN’s World Championship event ) that Matt would also be back in the office soon and might have spent an extra hour getting ready that morning. Sure enough the two causally caught one another on the elevator and with an excited “hey! how are you?! How was Kona?! How have you been?!” all while the receptionist was standing by confused as to how the two even knew each other and why Sarah’s face was blushing. About an hour later Sarah got an email with a “creative request” from Matt but was mostly concerned how Sarah had been holding up in Tampa. After that, the two started hanging out regularly and getting to know one another better. Matt offered to help pick up a couch from IKEA for Sarah (which if you know Matt’s old car this was a VERY risky move ). The two laughed the whole way to her apartment, all while praying the couch wasn’t going to drop out the back of the car onto the highway. As a thank you for the help, Sarah took Matt to a Bolts game and treated him to sushi and that was kinda their first date. The two started officially dating January of 2014 after picking up some frozen yogurt and ever since it’s been happily ever after!