Thanks to friends of friends (shoutout to Julia and Corey!!), Vivian and Mark first crossed paths at a party Vivian’s first week at UCLA in 2011. #GoBruins. They kept in touch and started dating two years later and spent the summer of 2013 living just across the hall from one another with friends. With Mark moving back to Solvang, they knew they would have to put in effort to make things work. The next five years of long-distance dating saw hours of phone calls, texts, FaceTimes and many many car rides between Solvang and Dana Point, San Diego and L.A., and everywhere in between so they could be together. Mark and Vivian made the most of these trips, which would often be quick weekends that'd always feel too short. Throughout the years, they continued to explore new places and spend time with family and friends. Lots of trips and adventures and good times were had -- whether it was backpacking the Grand Canyon or Southeast Asia, tent camping in the Eastern Sierras or Zion, or UCLA tailgates and trips with their friends and family. In 2019, they finally lived in the same city when Mark graduated law school and started working in L.A. Later that year, when Vivian graduated from nursing school and got a job in the Bay Area, there was no question that Mark would move with her. Now, after two years of living together in Burlingame and San Francisco and adopting lil Doobie into our family, we truly cannot wait to start this new chapter of our lives with all our favorite people!!