We’re getting married!

Our relationship began the modern way – by swiping right on Coffee Meets Bagel in 2018. We quickly bonded over nerdy interests (Lord of the Rings, Japanese children’s movies) and our objectively terrible jobs (Tiph as an ER nurse; Chris as a former middle school teacher). One date turned to many more – picnics at White Rock Lake, drive-in movies, eventually surprising each other with weekend trips to Arkansas and San Diego. Our relationship hit perhaps its biggest test when we decided to move in together in Chris’s tiny studio apartment, just days before an obscure virus made landfall in the U.S. Probably nothing, right? Since then, we have spent what feels like a lifetime together, living in three different cities, enduring winter storms and pandemics, and supporting each other through seemingly never-ending graduate school programs. Through it all, we still can’t believe we found each other with a swipe five years ago!