Due to changes on both of our teams at work, we were paired together (across the ocean) to support clients and spoke for the first time over the phone on 4 April 2018. Talking on the phone during work quickly turned into talking on the phone outside of work and across 5 months we really got to know each other without ever meeting!

We finally got to meet in August 2018, when Tom was in the US for 2 weeks for work training. Despite spending almost every spare minute together, both of us were too nervous to say anything about how we felt - until Hannah finally plucked up the courage on the last night. We both have very different versions of this story, but we both wish we'd said something sooner during the trip - and maybe not by text!! We very quickly made plans to see each other again, with Hannah coming over to visit London in October 2018, and Tom experiencing his first Thanksgiving!

We were very lucky that Hannah was able to transfer across to our London office, so that we could finally be together without having to suffer the 8 hour flight! Hannah moved over on Tom's mum's and Aunt's birthdays (they're identical twins - see if you can tell them apart when you meet them!) which will make the anniversary much easier to remember - unless Tom wants to upset three women all at once!

In November 2019, Tom & Hannah went on a trip to the Cotswolds to stay in an amazing spa hotel called Dormy House. Tom had been carrying around the ring for the whole month of November, waiting for the perfect moment - and that moment arrived after a very relaxing morning in the spa. Of course Hannah's answer was yes - and so the wedding planning could begin!