Our story started during a global pandemic on you guessed it, a dating app. Their first date was just a couple weeks after TJ moved to Chicago from Dallas. After hitting it off, future COVID dates included baking cookies, watching Beyonce's Homecoming, learning how to make cocktails, and taking walks around Logan Square and on the 606. Sitting at home, chatting, and really getting to know one another without distractions set the stage for something pretty special. 2/2021 Fast forward to February 2021, a few months into dating, when Brigit and TJ thought they would escape the Chicago winter and road trip down to Texas. One week into the trip, their fun vacation turned into surviving the Texas Freeze. When their Airbnb lost power, and they had to eat gas station food for dinner, they were somehow able to laugh their way through it. This unexpected early relationship test was a pretty good sign of how they'd handle challenges ahead of them. 5/2022 Speaking of challenges! It took what felt like years to find the first home Brigit and TJ bought together. The day after they moved in, TJ surprised Brigit on a Monday morning (yes, a Monday morning!) by proposing in the middle of stacks of moving boxes with a ring box in the fluffy belly of Brigit's cat Mowgli. It was an easy yes.